Why does cpio say "WARNING! These file names were not selected" when copying a large number of files

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Published on 2010-03-06T19:20:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 14:06 UTC
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For over 10 years, I've been using this strategy to copy a large number of files between UNIX filesystems:

cd source_directory
find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm /path/to/destination_directory

It works like a champ. However, I'm now getting this error from cpio:

cpio: WARNING! These file names were not selected:
(long list of files here...)

The source directory is on OSX 10.5, and the destination directory is a NFS filesystem from an OpenSolaris server. Copying over NFS has never been a problem in the past. There's nothing strange about the filenames, meaning there aren't special characters or anything like that.

Any ideas?

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