symbolic link

[malesef]

Hi everyone,
new bee here, I searched the achieve but couldnt find.
I would like to back up of a folder to my usb drive and folder includes symbolic links inside.
I am getting this error
"cp: cannot create symbolic link /home/path/ Operation not permitted"
what would be your suggestions guys?
Thank you

[reed9]

Presumably your USB drive is formatted to FAT32, which doesn't allow things like symlinks and file permissions.

You can format it to ext2, or you can tar everything up to preserve permissions/symlinks.

Howto: Backup and restore your system! - Ubuntu Forums

[hugortega]

Of, if you are not able to format using ext3/4, you can copy without symbolic lynks:

$ cp -r -P /path/to/your/folder /media/destination/usb/drive

The -P option indicates do not follow symlynks