REG:error details(temporary directory does not exist)

[Jayaseelan E]

Hi Folks!
I am have some 40 folders whose size of each folders are aproximately 3GB.I 
used distcp command to take a copy from HDFS to local machine.
But it fails with the following error.
/opt/hadoop/bin/hadoop distcp   hdfs://bl460x1890:9000/<<Source location>>  
file:///<<targetpath>>

java.io.IOException: The temporary job-output directory 
file:/archive/_distcp_logs_ndyr8m/_temporary doesn't exist!
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileOutputCommitter.getWorkPath(FileOutputCommitter.java:204)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileOutputFormat.getTaskOutputPath(FileOutputFormat.java:234)

My hadoop version is 2.0.1
If any one can please help me resolve this

Thanks indeed
jayaseelan