try using the command: file <filename>
to determine what kind of file it is.. it may be curropted.. nate On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote: patric >Over the weekend, I took my trusty server which had multiple partitions and swap files for RH, SuSE, NT and Debian and turned the whole thing over to Debian. patric > patric >Naturally, I backed up 4 Gigs of data first using tar czvf. Did a few tests and all seemed to work as tar xzvf recreated the files. patric > patric >Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this: patric > patric >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar xzvf datstore patric >tar: This does not look like a tar archive patric >tar: Skipping to next header patric > patric >gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated patric >tar: Child returned status 1 patric >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors patric >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ patric > patric > patric >There's several thousand important files at stake here...can anyone tell me how to recover them? patric > patric >Please... patric > patric >Patrick patric > patric > patric > patric > patric >-- patric >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null patric > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:15pm up 158 days, 2:21, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 1.04, 1.01
