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From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com>
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On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:36:44 -0400, Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to archive this directory for backup purposes. I am getting
> this error when trying to create a new tar file.
> 
> Solisix/
> flipnode@solid$ su
> Password:
> flipnode@solid# tar -c Solisix/
> tar: /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Operation not supported
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> What is wrong? Permissions? I am root..
> 

You need to specify the 'f' option to tell tar where to write the tar
to, it's defaulting
to /dev/sa0 which probably doesn't exist on your system.

Run:
tar -cf Solisix.tar Solisix/

--roop