On 2010-03-04, at 05:46, Frederik Ferner wrote: > Brian J. Murrell wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:21 +0000, Frederik Ferner wrote: >>> tar tizf test_MDT_Backup.tar.gz >>> .... >>> ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/ >>> ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/iozone.DUMMY.47 >>> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive >>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >>> </snip> >> >> Looks to me like either your tar executable is broken or your >> archive is >> broken. A typical process of elimination should help you discover >> which >> is the case. > > It certainly looks like it's the tar archive that is broken. I get the > same when I copy it over to a different machine. Unless is the tar > executable that is broken so that it creates the broken archive as > every > time I create a new archive it seems to be broken at the same place. > > Other tar files created on the same machine don't have that problem, > but > I'll try creating a new archive with a new executable.
Make sure you use "--sparse" so that tar isn't mistakenly creating huge archives full of zeroes. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
