Tar: Cowardly Refusing To Create An Empty Archive

im getting this error message when i try to execute the tar command to make a backup directory of some websites tar: cowardly refusing to create an empty archive [1348], Last Updated: Mon Jun 24, 2024

Bneterman

Sun Feb 28, 2010

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im getting this error message when i try to execute the tar command to make a backup directory of some websites:

tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

this is how my command looks like:

# tar -pczf $BACKUPS $PATH/

webune

Sun Feb 28, 2010

one of your variables is not set

try these commands to see which variable has no value

# echo $PATH

# echo $BACKUPS

then you can set the variables when you find which one is empty

# export $BACKUPS=myfilename.tar.gz
https://www.webune.com/forums/tar-cowardly-refusing.html

webthismie

Mon Mar 01, 2010

note to all that read this: i have some problems with the environment variables because i rebooted my server it erased, so you need to set your variables permanently

joanne

Wed Jul 28, 2010

sir, help me please.. refusing to create empty archive 原因

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