backing up with tar 3

[farley99]

Hi,

I want to put all me files in 1 tar file, but its giving me this error? I want to back up all files and diretories in my public_html folder.

# tar zcvf backup2.28.03.tar
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' for more information.

This call me a coward and doesn't work, what am I doing wrong?

 

[Morsing]

You're not telling it what to back up. You need to specify files and directory after your command.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[pdxcliffy]

agree...you must tell it a target file, and then what to tar into it..

tar zcvf [target file] [directories/files]

 

[clonny2]

Also, you should name your tar .tar.gz or .tgz because you are compressing using zip.

You should also be aware that tar has a 2gb file limitation on a filesystem, or at least it did.