File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

[Paul Mooring]

don't think that's it, it consistently tells me it can't find the file
I'm trying to create:

Thu Feb 11, 01:11 PM
paul at 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
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Thu Feb 11, 01:12 PM
paul at paulbox:~ $ sudo tar cf /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar /home/paul/Desktop/
tar: /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It sounds like it is not finding bzip2 for some reason.  Try creating the tar without compression first.
>
> Kevin
>
> Sent from my Nokia phone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Mooring
> Sent:  02/11/2010 1:16:37 PM
> Subject:  File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive
>
> Just like the subject says, this...
> paul at paulbox:~ $ sudo tar cjpf /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2
> /home/paul/Desktop/
> ...gives me this...
> tar: /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
>
> I'm running it is as root so I don't think it's permissions but just in case...
> paul at paulbox:~ $ ls -ld /backups
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 48 Feb 11 13:12 /backups
>
> anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
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