[olug] Ugh... 2GB tgz backup w/corrupt files

[Daniel Pfile]

And verify your tarballs.

On Jan 24, 2005, at 10:21 PM, Sean Edwards wrote:

> Here is a suggestion: don't use mc to cruise, view and
> copy from a large tar/gzip archive.  Use the command
> line options for tar/gzip, or unpack the whole thing
> to somewhere else.
>
>
> --- Eric Pierce <eric_olug at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I backed up my entire home dir tree with a simple
>> 'tar zcvf'.  It's the way I
>> always do it.
>>
>> However, upon unpacking (within Midnight Commander),
>> several of the files were
>> corrupt.  However, all of the directory structures
>> were still there.  I'd guess
>> that 10-15% of my files were compromised.
>>
>> I've never had this happen in my 4 years in Linux.
>> Fortunately (and quite
>> amazingly!), none of my irreplacable files were
>> affected.
>>
>> Does anyone know any trips or cookies for possibly
>> recovering files in my
>> incorrigible tgz?
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>> Eric Pierce
>>
>>
>>
>>
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