[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Any suggestions on a different approach or fix? Check your commandline! The second command is wrong, -C is not valid as the only option, a command is missing. If you just want to archive files in a tarball try: "tar -c * > dst.tar" or take a look at Python's tarfile lib.
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