I often backup the home directory of my portable pc by means of tar to a desktop hd partition via nfs. The home.tar.gz is almost 2.2 GB. Both boxes run Debian testing.
Now, following a substitution of my portable hd due to failure of the previous one, I'm trying to no avail to restore the home dir but: vic:/# tar -xvzf /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz home/ home/victor/ home/victor/.R/ home/victor/.R/help.db tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers vic:/# gunzip /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz gunzip: /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error gunzip: /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--length error vic:/# Now, before committing suicide having important documents on my home dir, what steps should I try to recover also part of the tar file? Thanks Vittorio
