Joerg Delker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when trying to recover a very important backup (ntfsclone sparse file), > I had to notice that tar (1.15.1) had trouble to extract that file. > > This archive was created with tar (1.1[45].x ?) about a month ago with > "tar -cjSf jake.tar.bz2 jake.ntfs", compressing the 6GB ntfs sparse > image into a 1.6GB tar.bz2 file. > > All attempts to recover this 6GB sparse file have failed so far (either > sparsed or zero-filled). > So, I did some research on the list and found several issues with equal > or similar cases. However, they all (?) should have been fixed in cvs > already.
Did you try to unpack the archive using star? ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
