On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:16:38PM -0800, aphro wrote: > try using the command: > > file <filename> > > to determine what kind of file it is.. > > it may be curropted..
Thanks. The big q is what's the recovery procedure? > > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
