[Hcoop-discuss] rsnapshot problems

[tanveer at hcoop.net]

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> My guess is there are just too many files for cp to handle, and
> strace won't tell us anything we don't already know -- out of
> memory, e.g. brk() failed.  If someone does want to run it I would
> filter out the 'read' and 'write' syscalls from strace (see '-e'
> in man page)
>
>
I agree. Once I was doing a cp. The command was cp *.vcd somedir/
But it kept on giving errors. The solution was to use find . -name "*.vcd"
-exec cp {} somedir \;

dunno if something like this can be used here?