Hello,
When I try to tar an entire directory (i.e. home/kbeaver/Backup) it tars fine, but it gives me an error.
home/kbeaver/Backup/: No such file or directory

Also, when I untar it, it creates a home directory that contains only a kbeaver directory which contains only a Backup directory which contains all of the files in Backup. Is there a way to remove the home and kbeaver directories?

yes, cd to /home/kbeaver and then tar the Backup directory.

The problem is I am taring from a shell script. I can't change to my home. Is there anyway to get around that?

I think I don't completely understand the question?

If I cd to /tmp and perform a tar, I don't get the error you are experiencing:

cd /tmp

$ du -ks /home/jmcontre
492796 /home/jmcontre


tar cvf jmcontre.TAR /home/jmcontre

when the tar is done, I have a tar file:
[jmcontre@t230club tmp]$ ll jm*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jmcontre jmcontre 484403200 Sep 11 22:29 jmcontre.TAR

my tar seems intact:

$ tar tvf jmcontre.TAR | more
drwx------ jmcontre/jmcontre 0 2003-09-11 22:10:17 home/jmcontre/
-rw-r--r-- jmcontre/jmcontre 24 2002-11-20 11:55:15 home/jmcontre/.bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- jmcontre/jmcontre 191 2002-11-20 11:55:15 home/jmcontre/.bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- jmcontre/jmcontre 486 2003-05-23 17:34:16 home/jmcontre/.bashrc
-rw-rw-r-- jmcontre/jmcontre 9280 2002-11-20 20:04:11 home/jmcontre/.gtkrc
-rw-r--r-- jmcontre/jmcontre 854 2002-11-20 11:55:15 home/jmcontre/.emac
etc.....


to my knowledge, you can cd to a directory and perform a tar within a script....just cd there prior to executing your tar cmd...


hope this helps,
manny

mr_manny is right. Post your script if you still have problems, OK?