Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:59:07 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0' Message-ID: <9369978e-7041-3ef9-2cb4-66555054425b@holgerdanske.com>
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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 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>; 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 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. 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 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>; 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 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. 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
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