Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > cp -ax / "/media/richard/MISC > backups/dev_sda14/" > cp: cannot stat '/media/richard/MISC > ... > File name too long
You tell cp to copy / including its sub tree /media/richard/... which is the target of the copy process. So as soon as reading reaches that tree it begins to copy itself into itself endlessly until it bonks against a filesystem limit. You need to exclude the target directory from being copied. E.g. by not giving "/" as copy source but rather all its files and directories except "/media". Have a nice day :) Thomas
