Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I did cp -a /home/spavri/ /mnt/cdrom/spavri/
> tar -cjvf backup.tar.bz2 * Because of a fundamental problem in the way you specified the files. "*" will map to all the non dot files. instead of specifying "*" use "." to grab the complete current directory and below. I am not sure whats wrong with the cp command maybe someone else can help with that one :). Mithun _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
