On Friday 26 October 2001 04:33 pm, s leonard wrote: > I'm not understanding you. It sounds like you are saying that you used > some version of tar which was not able to tar/untar a .tgz file?? this is > not the case here.
Okay, now I'm confused. You said in your first email: > What happens is that if one of these large compressed files is > encountered by the amanda backup, it silently stops backing up anything > on that filesystem at that > point, and if the file is restored, it is a truncated/corrupted > version of the original file. gnutar has no problem backing > up/restoring larger (3.9 g) tarballs which are not compressed. I am saying that I just ran into the same problem with a tar file I have on cd. It died while reading a compressed (gzipped) tarball on a filesystem. I need to do some more testing to find out exactly what the parameters of the problem are, but it sounds like we're talking about the same thing.
