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


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