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I'm trying to backup my entire VM on Fedora Linux. I'm using the following command
tar -cvpzf / test/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/test
But when I do that, I come up with this error:
tar (child): /: Cannot open: Is a directory tar
(child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Can somebody please explain what I'm doing wrong?
You need to specify the archive name before the directory:
tar -cvpzf test/backup.tar.gz / --exclude=/test
Name target archive file first:
tar -cvpzf test/backup.tar.gz ...
followed by the directory(ies) to tar:
tar -cvpzf test/backup.tar.gz / --exclude=/test
