04-01-2004
Question regarding tar restore
I created a relative backup of my home directory using tar into a file named backup.tar.
No problem there.
I checked it out using the table of contents command to list the contents of the backup.tar file, and there is no problem there either.
But, when I tried restoring backup.tar into a directory that I created called tar-restore, I am getting the following error:
$ cd tar-restore
$ tar -xvf backup.tar
tar: backup.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Now, it's saying that backup.tar doesn't exist, but it does! Can someone please explain what the problem is?
Thank you
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