Re: filename.tar failing to untar

[Steven]

Hello Kenny! Thanks for responding!

Yes, you have observed wisely. ;-)

Yes it may be possible. Is there anything we can do in this case?

On Friday 18 July 2003 11:12, Kenny Allman wrote:
> Looks like an APPGEN user! {;-)
>
> Anyway ... I've seen these types of errors whilst creating a tarball ...
>
> I think it indicates that a file changed during the operation.
>
> Is that possible in your case?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven [mailto:steven@poiema.org]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 2:02 PM
> To: help-gnu-utils@gnu.org
> Subject: filename.tar failing to untar
>
>
> Hello:
>
> I've been searching high and low for any information that might help me
> restore from a backup tar file that is being difficult for some reason.
>
> The file is just your basic tar file without any compression.
>
> Here is the command I'm typing:
>
> tar xvf 2003-07-17.tar
>
> And here is the last few lines from the result:
> ...
> /DP/
> /DP/PDEF.DP000000
> /DP/PDEF.DP010000
> /DP/RDEF.DP010000
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [root@lucia root]#
>
> Here is the version of tar we are running:
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
>
> The filesize of the backup file is consistant with the other files that
> have worked fine.
>
> Does anyone know what options I have? Is there some way to look into
> the file to see what may be wrong?
>
> Thanks so much in advance,
>
> Steven

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