How to tar bitbucket's home directory?

[heihachi88]

When i try to tar /var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket, i get 2 errors:

tar: /var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/shared/config/ssh-server-keys.pem: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: /var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/shared/bitbucket.properties: Cannot open: Permission denied

How can i backup these 2 files?

[Timothy]

Are you running the tar as the user that is running Bitbucket? Or running the tar as sudo?

[heihachi88]

I am running tar with my user which has access to sudo.