tar ssh: strange gzip error message?

[Zev Thompson]

Hi all,

If I want to copy a bunch of files over ssh without extra servers, it's 
easy enough to use the following command:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /directory/to/copy  tar -cvf 
- * | tar -xf - -C .

This works without complaint. However, when I change the options passed 
to tar, adding gzip compression on one end and decompression on the 
other:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /directory/to/copy  tar 
-cvzf - * | tar -xzf - -C .

I get this error message:

gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Is my method wrong? It appears that the files transferred just fine, 
but I'm still curious as to what's going on. Thanks in advance to any 
replies.

Cheers,
Zev
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Re: tar ssh: strange gzip error message?

[Joshua Lokken]

* Zev Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-30 11:14]:
 Hi all,
 
 If I want to copy a bunch of files over ssh without extra servers, it's 
 easy enough to use the following command:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /directory/to/copy  tar -cvf 
 - * | tar -xf - -C .
 
 This works without complaint. However, when I change the options passed 
 to tar, adding gzip compression on one end and decompression on the 
 other:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /directory/to/copy  tar 
 -cvzf - * | tar -xzf - -C .
 
 I get this error message:
 
 gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
 tar: Child died with signal 13
 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
 
 Is my method wrong? It appears that the files transferred just fine, 

I don't think so...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /test  tar -cvzf - *
| tar -xzf - -C .

GUIDE.pdf
HeterogenousClusters.pdf
SecurityAndopenMosix.pdf

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Both forms work happily here, but i did notice on subsequent copies of
the same files I experienced some data corruption:

GUIDE.pdf
HeterogenousClusters.pdf
SecurityAndopenMosix.pdf
tar: SecurityAndopenMosix.pdf: file changed as we read it
linux-kongress_2003_openMosix.pdf
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


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Joshua

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