Backup tar xvpfz backup.tgz -C / Permission Denied

[ProgressionMurph]

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to backup my root.

I have backup.tgz in my root and I type tar xvpfz backup.tgz -C / in and I receive the following errors.

tar:backup.tgz: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Feeling lost.

Thanks.

[taurus]

Did you log in as root (not the first user that you created during the installing process)? Otherwise, add the sudo in front for root privilege.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

[ProgressionMurph]

root@alex-laptop:/home/alex# tar xvpfz backup.tgz -C /
tar: backup.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting nowdo.
tar: Child returned status 2t to
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


No longer recieve the permission error. Hmm.. Well.. the file is in the root area. I don't have much knowledge with linux. Unless I made the root backup wrong. I don't know wha

[taurus]

Are you in the right directory where backup.tgz resided? Remember, you are in /home/alex's home directory.


ls -la

[ProgressionMurph]

root@alex-laptop:/home/alex# ls -la
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
total 156
drwxr-xr-x 26 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 19:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-05-01 13:47 ..
-rw------- 1 alex alex 59 2009-05-01 19:07 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 220 2009-05-01 13:47 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 3115 2009-05-01 13:47 .bashrc
drwx------ 3 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 4 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .config
drwx------ 3 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 10:12 Desktop
-rw------- 1 alex alex 28 2009-05-01 09:57 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 Documents
-rw------- 1 alex alex 16 2009-05-01 09:57 .esd_auth
-rwx------ 1 alex alex 357 2009-04-27 07:12 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .fontconfig
drwx------ 5 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 10:25 .gconf
drwx------ 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 19:18 .gconfd
drwx------ 8 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 10:08 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .gnome2_private
drwx------ 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .gnupg
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 104 2009-05-01 09:58 .gtk-bookmarks
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs
-rw------- 1 alex alex 169 2009-05-01 09:57 .ICEauthority
drwx------ 3 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 10:12 .local
drwx------ 4 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 19:07 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 Music
drwxr-xr-x 3 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .nautilus
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:59 Pictures
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 675 2009-05-01 13:47 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 Public
drwx------ 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .pulse
-rw------- 1 alex alex 256 2009-05-01 09:57 .pulse-cookie
-rw------- 1 alex alex 218 2009-05-01 10:08 .recently-used.xbel
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 2009-05-01 10:00 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 Templates
drwx------ 3 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:59 .thumbnails
drwx------ 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 .update-notifier
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 2009-05-01 09:57 Videos
-rw------- 1 alex alex 122 2009-05-01 09:57 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 5777 2009-05-01 19:19 .xsession-errors


How do you make the code?

[taurus]

I don't see any backup.tgz from the output! Where did you put backup.tgz?


find / -name backup.tgz -print

[ProgressionMurph]

Places>My Computer> File System (root) as far as I can tell it has a "/"

[ProgressionMurph]

inside their there is a "root" folder.

[taurus]

You mean /root!


ls -la /root
p.s. /root is not the same as /home/alex.

[ProgressionMurph]

root@alex-laptop:/home/alex# find / -name backup.tgz -print
/media/MY IPOD/backup.tgz
/home/alex/.local/share/Trash/files/backup.tgz
/backup.tgz

[taurus]

root@alex-laptop:/home/alex# find / -name backup.tgz -print
/media/MY IPOD/backup.tgz
/home/alex/.local/share/Trash/files/backup.tgz
/backup.tgz


cd /
tar xvpfz backup.tgz -C /

Or you can omit the -C / at the end since you are already in /.

[ProgressionMurph]

HooHa!!! typed that into the terminal and it seems to be unpacking the backup!

[ProgressionMurph]

Hmm.. This is what I get..

tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

by the end.

[taurus]

Sounds like there is something wrong with backup.tgz.