I got a error after this TAR command? What should i do to correct it?

tar -cvfz tarfilename.tar.gz directoryname


web/sun/index.shtml
web/sun/java2/
web/sun/java2/books.shtml
web/sun/java2/cramnotes.shtml
web/sun/java2/exam.shtml
web/sun/java2/index.shtml
web/sun/java2/java2-cramnotes.pdf
web/dump.sql
web/z
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[admin@www home]$

edit: taken out

Originally posted by teck
try tar -zxvf blah.tar.gz

Will that syntax allow me to keep all the file permissions?

Try it. If not, you can always rm the dir.

Here is what I've done

tar -cvfz certify.tar.gz web

and this is what I've get


-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin home 96163840 Jul 31 11:04 z


Any clues?

Sorry, I thought you were trying to untar something, not tar a directory. Try this command.

tar -czvf certify.tar.gz web

Thanks, it worked. :)

Now I FTP to my new server and I type the command get certify.tar.gz


226 Transfer complete.
ftp> get certify.tar.gz
local: certify.tar.gz remote: certify.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
550 certify.tar.gz: No such file or directory
ftp>


What is the problem?

do a full path:
GET /home/username/certify.tar.gz

Samething it still won't work.. :(

Make sure you are in the right dir. Do a 'ls' in ftp to see if the file is there. If not, do a 'cd ..' to go up a dir and 'ls' again. Once you find the file, then 'get' it.

Thanks got it working now. :)