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RE: [cobalt-users] Backing up with tar and gzip



>"man tar" will show you that

>tar -cfz file.tar.gz whatever

>will do what you want...

>- -- 
>Bruce Timberlake
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When I did tar -cfz file.tar.gz dirname received this error

[root site8]# tar -cfz backupFeb5.tar.gz web
tar: backupFeb5.tar.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

it doesn?t compress
I want to backup not to expand

regards