Dear all, I was using tar 1.19 and trying to extract a .tar.bz2 which was defective. So I had to manually use bzip2recover ending up with several thousands of .bz2 files of which most could be decompressed. Now concatenating all the files (correct order!) lead to a ``recovered.tar'' archive. However when trying to extract the archive tar fails as soon as the first defective header is found. I was expecting tar to try as hard as possible to recover the remaining files by simply ignoring the junk preceding the next valid header.
So using the perl script from http://www.bestsolution.at/support/console/repair_tar_archives.html.en I managed to recover further parts by tail -n +NNNNNN | tar xf - ... but whenever a defective part appeared I had to restart the procedure and check for the next file... Did I miss an option, did this never work or is it just broken in newer versions of gnutar? Soeren PS: I tried to file this as a bug report but gnu tar does not accept bug reports (bug or feature?).
