From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jun 18 18:59:10 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C4FD8BC62 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:59:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [IPv6:2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "holgerdanske.com", Issuer "holgerdanske.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 393EC788B9 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:59:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from 99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:TLSv1.2:Kx=ECDH:Au=RSA:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:59:08 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Christensen Subject: tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0' Message-ID: <9369978e-7041-3ef9-2cb4-66555054425b@holgerdanske.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:59:07 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:59:10 -0000 FreeBSD questions: I use GNU tar to backup files. Here is an example on Linux: 2017-06-18 11:46:01 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version 8.8 2017-06-18 11:46:31 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ uname -a Linux jesse 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux 2017-06-18 11:46:33 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash 2017-06-18 11:47:33 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 2017-06-18 11:49:02 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.27.1 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. 2017-06-18 11:53:31 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ tar c .icedove > dpchrist-icedove-20170618.tar 2017-06-18 11:53:54 dpchrist@jesse ~ $ ls -l dpchrist-icedove-20170618.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 363581440 Jun 18 11:53 dpchrist-icedove-20170618.tar GNU tar fails on FreeBSD: 2017-06-18 11:48:23 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ freebsd-version 11.0-RELEASE-p10 2017-06-18 11:48:28 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ uname -a FreeBSD freebsd 11.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 #0: Tue Apr 11 08:42:58 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 2017-06-18 11:48:29 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash 2017-06-18 11:48:53 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.4.5(0)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd11.0) Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 2017-06-18 11:52:11 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. 2017-06-18 11:52:44 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ gtar c .thunderbird > dpchrist-thunderbird-20170618.tar gtar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Operation not supported gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now BSD tar also fails: 2017-06-18 11:52:56 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ tar --version bsdtar 3.2.1 - libarchive 3.2.1 zlib/1.2.8 liblzma/5.2.2 bz2lib/1.0.6 2017-06-18 11:53:14 dpchrist@freebsd ~ $ tar c .thunderbird > dpchrist-thunderbird-20170618.tar tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0' What's the problem? David