corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(

Mike Kelly mdkelly at ualr.edu
Tue Feb 14 15:36:48 UTC 2012


>
> 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


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