Update:

On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:16:01 Marcus Hardt wrote:
> Update:
> 
> tar xf restore.tar      will fail, if restore.tar is pretty big

fails

> cat restore.tar | tar x   seems to work

fails

But:
using the 'i' option for 
     -i, --ignore-zeros
           ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF)

makes tar wander through the archive even thought it might have detected EOF 
markers (i.e. "two consecutive zero-filled records" according to the 
wikipedia page of the tar format)

I observed several warnings in my cmdline:

        tar tfi restore.tar |wc -l
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
387781

I can only hope this works and helps others.

M.


> And I thought windows was terrible...
> 
> M.
> 
> On Monday 13 September 2010 23:26:42 Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On 9/13/2010 10:49 AM, Marcus Hardt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > btw:  this problem seems to be client unspecific. I see the same
> > > errors using smbclient and rsync via ssh.
> > 
> > But windows specific?  Are you sure the windows user has write access
> > and the file isn't locked by something else having it open?
> > 
> > > And, of course I'm in deep shit now, since I told everone how super
> > > great backuppc was...
> > 
> > There is at least the option of downloading an archive file through a
> > browser and restoring from that.
-- 
M.

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