Zip I/O error: Permission denied

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1

andy@7_/etc$ zip crontab.zip crontab
zip I/O error: Permission denied
zip error: Could not create output file (crontab.zip)

I am the owner of crontab.

2

Can you write in the /etc dir?

3

No, I can not create any new files in /etc.

4

first option, you use sudo so that you can write in /etc
second option, you create the zip file in your home dir

  1. cd /etc ; sudo zip andy.zip crontab

  2. cd ~ ; zip andy.zip /etc/crontab

5

Thanks.

cd /etc
echo *** | sudo -S zip crontab.zip crontab
rsync --progress -r -u crontab.zip $Backup_Directory