Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF
Almut Behrens writes:
>I'm afraid your tarball got corrupted... In that case - I'm sorry to
>say - you're almost certainly outta luck. After creating a tar.gz
>file, the _whole_ tarfile has been piped through gzip, so if any part
>of the file gets corrupted afterwards (however tiny - a single bit is
>sufficient), the gzip algorithm will not be able to recover any data
>later in the stream...
>
>My personal advice to avoid such desaster in future: use 'afio'
>instead of tar + gzip. afio compresses each file seperately, so in
>case of partial corruption if the archive, most of the remaining files
>can still be recovered...
Thank you. I was kind of afraid of that. Fortunately, I had
backups of the /usr file system and /etc which were from mid May and
haven't changed too terribly much so I think I am not as hosed as I
could be. Thanks again for the advice.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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