Author: Richard Brown Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] cp error
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:58, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote: > On my own box, Tux now running Lenny, previously Etch, I have for some time
> backed up (successfully) from the command line with:
>
> # cp -Rpu /home/. /backup
what is the output of
type cp
it may have been aliased to cp -i. If it has you may be able to use -f
to force it to copy.