Re: ALL my tar.bz2-backups unreadable, CRC-error!

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

> > I opened some of them with KDE's ark and they were ok. I copied them
> > to /mnt/windows. 
>
> I'm not entirely sure, but it's quite probable that it was this step
> the breakage happened in.  I guess you had your windows partition
> mounted in text mode --- *bad* plan if you're going to save binary
> files like those bzip2 outputs to them.  

If that was the problem, then it might be possible to speculatively turn
the dodgy characters pairs back into a single linefeed and see if bzip2
gets further.

Could take a while to run but if the data's valuable...

Cheers,


Ralph.