File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

[Matt Graham]

>>> 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
From: Paul Mooring <drpppr242 at gmail.com>
> 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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