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Hello
I am trying to make a backup of home as described here https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /backup.md
using the tar command but I keep getting this error message

tar (child): pi_home.tar.gz: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I want to back this up to do a fresh install of NOOBS on a bigger SD card and then restore the backup.
Thanks.

You need supervisor privileges to do it. That is achieved by adding the word "sudo",

I have reported this as an Issue for the Documentation maintainers: https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/299

Thank you. I'll do that later.