Sara Martínez-Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm having problems recovering with tar large backup files (~4GB) I made under > Linux with the tar-based script below. I can recover smaller backup files (up > to ~3.9GB) with no problem. This is the error message I get: > > tar xpf /mnt/disk3/BACKUP_LINUX/zahir-01Jul.tar > tar: Read 4095 bytes from /mnt/disk3/BACKUP_LINUX/zahir-01Jul.tar > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > I don't think the backup files are corrupt; could this be a problem caused by > their size?
As a few weeks ago, there was a note that GNU tar had problems with sparse files > 4 GB, I would asume this is a GNU tar problem. Meanwhile, you could try star ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ but there is a big chance that your files are lost. 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
