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

[Sean Edwards]

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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