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Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody cp cannot create regular file invalid argument can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top External backup - “cp: cannot create regular file” error up vote 5 down vote favorite 1 I have always backed up my home directory to an external hard drive using the cp -r command. Until recently, it worked fine, but now I regularly get the cp cannot create special file operation not permitted error message cp: cannot create regular file followed by invalid argument or cp: cannot create symbolic link followed by operation not permitted. I've tried sudo cp -r but the issue persists. What am I doing wrong? command-line backup cp share|improve this question edited Mar 13 '14 at 18:02 Pro Backup 1,4422726 asked Mar 2 '11 at 13:09 Lolwhites 1201210 What is the file system of the external hdd.?. –aneeshep Mar 19 '11 at 4:09 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 4 down vote cp -rv should at least tell you what file it's baulking out on. The problem you're having sounds like you're copying a symlink (that is a file that just points to another) to a filesystem that doesn't support symlinks. There are three options for this: Turn your backup volume into a filesystem that accepts symlinks (eg reformat it from FAT or NTFS to EXT3 or EXT4). Might be a pain depending on how much data you've got there (that you might have to juggle while you do it). Just ignore symlinks and not copy them
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> This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Learn More. Solved cp command - http://askubuntu.com/questions/28711/external-backup-cp-cannot-create-regular-file-error "invalid argument" result Discussion in 'General' started by drummondislebsd, Mar 1, 2015. drummondislebsd New Member Messages: 8 Thanks Received: 0 I have selected a group of files I wish to copy to a USB stick. I mounted USB stick via ls /dev/da* and that resulted with da0 and da0s1. mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /media/usb https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/50575/ resulted in successful mount. Tested via cd /media/usb and ls result is system volume. mkdir /media/usb/my_dir and ls result is /media/usb/my_dir shown Verification of successful mount--then, as ROOT, I navigated to my the location of the files I wish to copy to USB drive. cd /home/user_name/my_dir (four sub directories, each containing multiple files) cp -R /home/user_name/my_dir /media/usb/my_dir I visually see server display: Code:cp (file name) :invalid argument I then navigated back to the file location and ls -l |more showed the ownership was user_name:wheel for each file Thinking user:group ownership it may be an issue... chown -R root:wheel /home/user_name/my_dir then ls -l |more verifies all files now owned by root:wheel Execute command again... same "invalid argument" response Any ideas? drummondislebsd, Mar 1, 2015 #1 drummondislebsd New Member Messages: 8 Thanks Received: 0 PS: freebsd FreeBSD release 8.0 First used: find . -type f -mtime +1 -mtime -30 -exec cp {}
Systems Objective: Build a automation system using Rivendell on a Linux platform Home Network Upgrade Upgraded my home network by adding a hardware firewall, a file & print server, and a set of network monitoring tools. IN THIS DISCUSSION Join the Community! Creating your account https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/428155-invalid-character-in-cp-command only takes a few minutes. Join Now I'm really hoping this is a simple fix... So today I found myself trying to copy movie projects from my media production SAN to a storageworks 3000 tape drive attached to a mac pro. Now not my ideal scenario and after a lot cursing I was able to mount a tape using ltfs. Now anything other than the command line causes the mac to die. So I've been playing around with cp and rsync. The issue I'm having is with invalid argument some of the file names in the projects I'm trying to back up. Certain files contain ':' in them which is preventing those files from being copied. I've tried various ways and options but the result is always the same. I can't rename the files either as the project won't work correctly. Google has been a bust, and I'm hoping that someone here might be able help. Reply Subscribe View Best Answer   21 Replies Mace OP Alex3031 Jan 7, 2014 at 2:25 cp cannot create UTC have you tired escaping the character? If I recall correctly backslash is the escape character in bash. 1 Mace OP Alex3031 Jan 7, 2014 at 2:27 UTC Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9181852/how-do-i-escape-character-in-mac
0 Mace OP Alex3031 Jan 7, 2014 at 2:30 UTC I'm reading that in the Mac shell a backslash is the escape character to use though. 0 Datil OP EngineerIT Jan 7, 2014 at 2:37 UTC whats the file system you are trying to copy to? 0 Habanero OP leif2251 Jan 7, 2014 at 2:38 UTC Alex3031 wrote: have you tired escaping the character? If I recall correctly backslash is the escape character in bash. Sorry I should of pointed out the projects are huge some 3 TB, each project contains multiple directories. So I'm copying the root directory and the not the individual file. Theres no way of knowing ahead of time how many files will have the : character or were they will be located. I will give that a try though, it might be that I have to make a script to find them all. Far from ideal though, I really don't think it's going to be a suitable solution for us as it's the movie editors who want to use it not myself. 0 Tabasco OP Helpful Post JasonH83 Jan 7, 2014 at 2:39 UTC This sounds like more of a Mac question than Linux? Mac doesn't accept a colon has a valid char