kend AT xanoptix DOT com wrote:
Otherwise, I get all sorts of errors... damn! Unfortunately, my log just
got wiped during a reboot. Going from memory, here are the "symptoms:"
Anyway, some exact errormessages really help a lot. Try to reproduce
it. Mentioning the versions of the programs used, also helps.
dd if=filename.tar bs=32k skip=1 | gzip -cd | tar xvf -
dd if=filename.tar bs=32k skip=1 | tar zxvf -
And does this work or has the same problem?
Maybe the filename.tar file just plain corrupt?
Any suggestions? Right now, I'm doing my backups w/o compression, and
it's working fine, but I'd really like to be able to make my media go the
extra distance that compression would allow.
Somehow (but without sufficient information) I would not rule out
hardware problems. The fact that compressed backups do not work, is
just the result that those files are much more fragile: one bit change
is enough to invalidate all the following bytes.
Are you sure the normal backups do not have a bit changed somewhere?
Try doing a restore and then an md5sum of the files and/or compare
with originals.
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