Try it without the last '/' like this: tar czvf caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz /home/rshepard
Although, if you run it like that, you can only restore /home/rshepard Thus, I find following equivalent more flexible: cd /home tar czvf /mnt/hd/caddis/caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz rshepard This way you can restore the rshepard dir anywhere you like. Hope it helps, T On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 17:08 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > Prior to upgrading the OS version on my Dell E5410 laptop I tried > to > backup everything in ~/ to a 2.7T external hard drive with 22M of > data on > it. After deleting cruft from ~/ du -sh told me my home directory > contained > 40G of data. > > With /mnt/hd/caddis/ (the laptop's host name) as the pwd I entered > the > command: > tar czvf caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz /home/rshepard/ > > The system churned away for a long time (I didn't time it, but it > would have > been more than a coffee break in length) and finally exited with an > error > message about exiting after prior errors occurred. Tried this again > with the > same results. > > What might cause such a response? > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
