There is something *very* wrong with either the tar used to make the
archive, or the tar used to restore.  I wouldn't trust anything it
outputs at all.

What version of tar on both ends?

Have you tried getting a zip archive from the GUI instead?  Or using
BackupPC_zipCreate on the CLI?

-Robin

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote:
> 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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