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Yuday
Yuday

Reputation: 4519

compress with tar, tar : Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I'm trying to compress files, but I use other user

Say there are two user here, user 1 "test1" and user 2 "test2"

I logged in as user 2 "test2"

Then, I wanted to compress files in the user directory "test1"

"/Home/test1/Downloads/repos/"

I've run the command

$ Tar -zcvf $HOME/backup_file.tar.gz /home/test1/Downloads/repos/

When there is an error compress process

tar : Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I've tried the way of the link below, but still error

tar Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Assistance and solutions is greatly appreciated

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7599

Answers (2)

jax
jax

Reputation: 1

file permission issue (no read access) somewhere. Use sudo.

Upvotes: -1

123
123

Reputation: 315

The original folder compressed was created by the root authority, and your implementation of the tar maybe no sudo

Upvotes: 1

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