Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:12:50 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Phillip Smith <phillip@3bags.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! Problems with TAR archives? Message-ID: <20030109214250.GM79263@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <002401c2b7f2$f7ba5e30$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> References: <20030107005454.GF2279@wantadilla.lemis.com> <002401c2b7f2$f7ba5e30$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 9 January 2003 at 10:22:48 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: >> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey >> >> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] >> >>> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 >> >> Incorrect wrapping in quoted text. > > Argh! I thought I had fixed that... I've set the wrap to 132, what else > can I do? Not much. But it doesn't look like it. > Perhaps I'll try one of these third-party programs? Or switch to ??? > at the office for email? mutt. >> On Monday, 6 January 2003 at 8:45:25 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: >>> I'm starting to think that the archives got corrupted somehow? >> >> What does tar t tell you on the FreeBSD side? > > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive. > tar: Skipping to next file header... > tar: only read 521 bytes from archive etc.rein.tar That's obviously a corrupted archive, or no archive at all. Is that before sending it to the Microsoft box? > Also, I tried re-creating the problem. Exact same scenario. Created > a new TAR archive, ftp'd from FreeBSD to Window (not specifying a > setting), then used 'get' to bring them back to FreeBSD and the > archives are fine. So, I'm thinking that the original archives are > corrupt... Well, test them then. >>> The archive starts to unpack (I see a few directories and files) >>> then hits a snag and spews garbage or quits. >>> >>> Here's a question then... suppose I want to re-mount a drive that >>> had the data on it, but the drive was one of two drives mirrored >>> with vinum. I've subsequently changed my drive set-up and now >>> this drive is just sitting there as a 'hot spare', I haven't >>> newfs'd it or anything... so I presume the data is still on it. If >>> I were to re-connect the drive, and re-load vinum, could I access >>> the data? How easy/difficult would this be? >> >> That depends a lot on the Vinum configuration and whether >> you're running any other Vinum volumes. It could work. But >> first I'd like to establish whether your archive is really >> corrupt. There's a possibility that the tar you're using on >> the Microsoft side simply doesn't understand the archive. > > I'm using TAR on the FreeBSD side, not the Microsoft side. Don't > have an archiver installed on the Windows box. I'm gradually getting confused. What is the data doing on the Microsoft box at all? > I don't have any Vinum volumes set up at the moment, no. But, I was > thinking I could plug in the 'hot spare' drive and start vinum and > see what config it pulls from the drive; then alter the config so > that there's only one subdisk (the hot spare) for the 'mirror' and > mount that and move the data off? What do you think? If you haven't set up Vinum, it's a bit late now. You have to write the config, it doesn't do it automatically. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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