# Cannot Backup my Development Instance (Fails)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-backup-my-development-instance-fails/92223>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 13, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-backup-my-development-instance-fails/92223 "2018-07-13T00:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-backup-my-development-instance-fails/92223/2 "2018-07-13T01:36:17Z")

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Hmm it looks like this is related to

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/83110a1a812140382167e8f5339c8bde3ee6610d](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/83110a1a812140382167e8f5339c8bde3ee6610d)

```plaintext
[2018-07-12 20:48:45] EXCEPTION: Failed to archive uploads.
tar: Option --warning=no-file-changed is not supported
Usage:
  List: tar -tf <archive-filename>
  Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
  Create: tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
  Help: tar --help

```

Can you try upgrading tar to at least 1.23?

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