Re: Please tell me this is curable...
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:16:38PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> try using the command:
>
> file <filename>
>
> to determine what kind of file it is..
>
> it may be curropted..
Thanks. The big q is what's the recovery procedure?
>
> nate
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote:
>
> patric >Over the weekend, I took my trusty server which had multiple partitions and swap files for RH, SuSE, NT and Debian and turned the whole thing over to Debian.
> patric >
> patric >Naturally, I backed up 4 Gigs of data first using tar czvf. Did a few tests and all seemed to work as tar xzvf recreated the files.
> patric >
> patric >Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this:
> patric >
> patric >atrick@enterprise:~$ tar xzvf datstore
> patric >tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> patric >tar: Skipping to next header
> patric >
> patric >gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> patric >tar: Child returned status 1
> patric >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> patric >patrick@enterprise:~$
> patric >
> patric >
> patric >There's several thousand important files at stake here...can anyone tell me how to recover them?
> patric >
> patric >Please...
> patric >
> patric >Patrick
> patric >
> patric >
> patric >
> patric >
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