Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:23:53 -0700 From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com> To: Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar problem Message-ID: <75f3f7050407011923279dc72@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1088728604.849.1.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> References: <1088728604.849.1.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com>
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On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:36:44 -0400, Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com> wrote: > > I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting > this error when trying to create a new tar file. > > Solisix/ > flipnode@solid$ su > Password: > flipnode@solid# tar -c Solisix/ > tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Operation not supported > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > What is wrong? Permissions? I am root.. > You need to specify the 'f' option to tell tar where to write the tar to, it's defaulting to /dev/sa0 which probably doesn't exist on your system. Run: tar -cf Solisix.tar Solisix/ --roop
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