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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but I am running a docker build command which is building an image on a mounted Volume. During the process I get this weird error

Can't add file /mnt/Volumes/file/on/volume to tar: archive/tar: sockets not supported

What does this mean?

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    Looks like /mnt/Volumes/file/on/volume is a UNIX domain socket, you can verify this with the output of file /mnt/Volumes/file/on/volume
    – Torin
    Commented Apr 13, 2018 at 20:16

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This is what worked for me. I tried to do docker commit and I got the message

  ERRO[2018-10-06T20:54:22.894911981-05:00] Can't add file /var/lib/docker/overlay2/161e218868241d450115fafcadc20b52ad2c81bf2e6b83897d3dfb7081eea34d/diff/tmp/ssh-OOMPJg4ESVMk/agent.165 to tar: archive/tar: sockets not supported

I attached to the container again and deleted /tmp/ssh-OOMPJg4ESVMk/ then it committed just fine.

What is happening is something created a socket. For example the command eval $(ssh-agent -s) creates a socket and I didn't realize it.

Delete the sock file and it commits.

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  • I noticed that even with the error it still commits.
    – Harry Forbess
    Commented Oct 7, 2018 at 2:31
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If you really like to archive this file, I recommend you to use the dump extensions from star

Call:

star -C /mnt -c -dump Volumes > /tmp/file.tar

to archive all file types. If you like to be more complete with your backup, add:

-sparse

-acl

-xattr

With -dump, star uses the exustar format that has been designed for accurate incremental backups.

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