Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > 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. > > Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar xzvf datstore > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > There's several thousand important files at stake here...can anyone > tell me how to recover them? > > Please...
How are you transferring the file from NT to Linux? If you're pushing it from NT to linux via ftp you might not be in binary mode and a translation is being done to change CR/LF pairs to CR, as expected on Unix systems. Make sure you're using binary mode, as in: NT$ ftp debianbox login: myname password: mypass ftp> bin 200 Type set to I. ftp> put datstor <blah,blah,blah> This also hold true if you're using some types of serial-to-serial transfer method. Whatever method you're using make sure it's a binary-mode transfer. Of course if you didn't transfer it to the NT box in binary mode in the first place you might be in trouble. Gary
