Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:18:38 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Mike Kelly <mdkelly@ualr.edu> Cc: _ <pancakeking79@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:( Message-ID: <CALfReyftR_SOdsVy7=4utRdZNyb5wf0LDKD8OmvE_iOvkf7usw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPXzq_d4ae057QcmNf60FiQ6ebAt5NJ_DW8omGzf-mry2YamEw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKnE0ZvaPK=uF7Lg2NepVsHbnDLQhedpVddVMg4vkFBfm%2B4%2Bsw@mail.gmail.com> <CAKOHg=MYuajQPogdu8nHnJE1D%2BmN6tWs%2BRMacXXwhNeY3PrjMA@mail.gmail.com> <CAKnE0Ztzy2Wk0Cq5VyNYLfyiceXOyJPW4z9-bcxnAm1%2BsD86qw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPXzq_d4ae057QcmNf60FiQ6ebAt5NJ_DW8omGzf-mry2YamEw@mail.gmail.com>
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Just another silly thought try the tar j flag rather than the z flag, as you might have got your compression algorithms confused. Try the xz one as well just in case On Feb 14, 2012 3:37 PM, "Mike Kelly" <mdkelly@ualr.edu> wrote: > > > > I don't have the script anymore. It is among the files lost, but it was > > pretty > > much straight forward, making use of: > > tar -czf backupfile.tar.gz folders/ of/ my/ choice/. > > > > After creating the backups I just cp(1)ed them to an msdosfs formated > > usb stick and got them onto 8.2 this way, so the famous ascii/binary > > trap shouldn't be > > an issue here. > > > > Just a thought... how large were the tar.gz files? Are you maybe hitting > on a file size limit and the .tar.gz files are getting truncated? Not sure > what the limit is for msdosfs. > > -- > Mike Kelly > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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