On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:15:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
Since gzip uses the same compression as zip, you might try Info-Zip's zipfix program ON A COPY of the tarball (www.info-zip.org). As far as I can tell it isn't packaged for Debian. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
