Hi, when trying to decompress a tar file I get this error. Can someone tell if there is a way to fix it or is the file lost?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -ixvf backup.tar BACKUP/ BACKUP/Rik/ BACKUP/Rik/Rogelio.doc tar: Skipping to next header BACKUP/Rik/xp-50/5,svq tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains `rik' where numeric mode_t value expected tar: Archive contains `s' where numeric time_t value expected tar: : Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Skipping to next header tar: : Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains `\311S}D\301\002' where numeric mode_t value expected tar: Archive contains `\b\000\000\000\263\030' where numeric uid_t value expected tar: Archive value 207545706796100 is out of gid_t range 0..4294967295 U5\335D tar: U5\335D: Unknown file type '', extracted as normal file tar: Skipping to next header tar: 411 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Thanks -- ---- ---- - Erik Alvarez - ---- ----