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

[Eric Pierce]

yes!  I just tried that.  All is well now.

Must be some limitation with mc.  Bizarre how only certain seemingly unrelated
files were affected.

Thanks, Sean

--- Sean Edwards <cybersean3000 at yahoo.com> 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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