Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"}

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 11/05/2018 à 14:59, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I'm attempting to backup current partition  to a USB connected 1 TB 
> > drive.
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > > root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / "/media/richard/MISC 
> > > backups/dev_sda14/"
> > > cp: cannot stat '/media/richard/MISC 
> > > backups/dev_sda14/home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 
> > > problem-2018-02-13/grub2 problem-2018-02-13/grub2 
> > > problem-2018-02-13/grub2 problem-2018-02-13/grub2 
> > > problem-2....018-02-13/grub2 problem-2018-02-13': File name too long
>
> The problem turned out to be that 
> "....local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2..." appeared under *BOTH*
> /home/richard and the root directory.

Do you mean that there was a

/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13

or

/root/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13

directory ? The former would be really odd. Also, I do not see how 
either would interfere with

/media/richard/MISC 
backups/dev_sda14/home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 
problem-2018-02-13

or

/home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2 problem-2018-02-13

> I successfully ran:
> root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# updatedb
> root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# locate TRASH
> root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / /media/richard/MISC-backups/dev_sda14/

None of these commands removes any file or directory.