Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

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Author: Matt Graham
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Subject: Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive
>>> paul@paulbox:~ $ sudo tar cjpf /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2
>>> /home/paul/Desktop/
>>> tar: /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file
>>> or directory

From: Paul Mooring <>
> yes, like my reply above shows with or without the j I get an error
> saying /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2 is missing and which bzip2,
> correctly show /bin/bzip2 exists and is in the proper location.


Does the directory /backups/bkup/ exist? If it were missing, it'd
cause that error message. tar won't make directories for you; you
have to use mkdir for that :-)

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