Re: Statically linked 'tar'
Martin Lucina <mato@kotelna.sk> writes:
> Hi all
>
> I seem to have run into some rather ugly data corruption and I need to restore
> my alpha from tape. However, the 'star' binary on the debian boot disks
> doesn't want to read my tape (keeps quitting with 'Error in archive'). Could
> someone compile up a statically linked /bin/tar for me?
How did you invoke star?
You probably use compression, but
star -xzvvf <tape>
won´t work. Try
zcat < <tape> | star
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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