Thanks Nathan and Blake: No I didn't ftp the file. I did transfer it from harddisk to a Jaz drive via the 'cp' command though. Then, when I attempted to copy it back to the hard disk following a operating system reinstall, I discovered that the latest backup file returned those errors and failed to untar. This left me with no other choice but to keep trying older and older files until I found one that did work, but not without losing a significant / expensive amount of work... :-(
Here's the output of the 'tar tvf filename.tar': ... drwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2003-03-18 14:28:35 DP/ -rwxrwxrwx root/root 38564 2002-08-11 01:38:32 DP/PDEF.DP000000 -rw-rw-rw- root/root 55980 2002-09-19 08:27:15 DP/PDEF.DP010000 -rw-rw-rw- root/root 360249 2002-09-19 08:27:15 DP/RDEF.DP010000 tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# The strange thing about this is that the filesize is consistant with a full backup, so it's not as though the tar command failed to concatenate the full set of files??? I'd sure like to get this recovered. It doesn't make our choice to run Linux look very good when stuff like this happens... :-( On Friday 18 July 2003 11:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > tar xvf 2003-07-17.tar > > > > And here is the last few lines from the result: > > ... > > /DP/ > > /DP/PDEF.DP000000 > > /DP/PDEF.DP010000 > > /DP/RDEF.DP010000 > > tar: Skipping to next header > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# > > Is there any chance you ftp'd it from somewhere in text mode? That's a > common cause of such corruption. -- Know your neighbor. Discover independent media: http://www.thislife.org/ - This American Life - documenting "everyday life" in the US. http://www.humanmedia.org/ - Promoting "compassion, service, generosity and equality." http://www.worldlinktv.org/ - "a global perspective on news, current events and culture" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
