Re: archive corrupted !

2007-07-01 Thread Shams Fantar
Till Wimmer wrote: sfantar wrote: I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's an archive .tar.gz. You said tar -cvf ? -c stands for "create", not compression... tar -cvzf would do a gzip compression. Maybe your archive isn't zipped at all. Till

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-07-01 Thread Till Wimmer
sfantar wrote: > I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's > an archive .tar.gz. > You said tar -cvf ? -c stands for "create", not compression... tar -cvzf would do a gzip compression. Maybe your archive isn't zipped at all. Till > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:13:16PM +0200, sfantar wrote: > > > > I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's an > archive .tar.gz. if, as you claim, you used 'tar -cvvf' to make the archive then its not gzip'ed and doesn't need the -z flag to untar it, despite how it

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread sfantar
Martin Marcher wrote: hmm in my mind there were some sentences below :), anyway file reports that is indeed a gzipped tar? maybe just some extension weirdness... If it is a backup script test run it to be sure it doesn't do some redirection badness and simply creates corrupted files because it

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread sfantar
Dan H wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200 Till Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not a single file in it. "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file co

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200 Till Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... > > The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not > a single file in it. > "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file > correctly

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-28 Thread Shams Fantar
Martin Marcher wrote: have you tested the obvious? That is to say ? does file report that it is indeed gzipped (maybe just some file ending weirdence?) On 6/28/07, Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, I have a corrupted file, when I make 'tar xvzf home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-28 Thread Shams Fantar
Till Wimmer wrote: Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not a single file in it. "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file correctly, not a file in it called "file". Gzip is a stream compression, it

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-28 Thread Till Wimmer
Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not a single file in it. "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file correctly, not a file in it called "file". Gzip is a stream compression, it doesn't know anythin

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-28 Thread Shams Fantar
Till Wimmer a écrit : Sorry for saying this: it probably tells you the truth :( Bye, Till Shams Fantar wrote: Dear all, I have a corrupted file, when I make 'tar xvzf home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz', I have : gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error exit

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-28 Thread Till Wimmer
Sorry for saying this: it probably tells you the truth :( Bye, Till Shams Fantar wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a corrupted file, when I make 'tar xvzf > home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz', I have : > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from

archive corrupted !

2007-06-28 Thread Shams Fantar
Dear all, I have a corrupted file, when I make 'tar xvzf home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz', I have : gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I have tested the software "gzip Recovery Toolkit"[1] but I always have this error