Greetings, I backed some folders with tar in combination with gnupg, file sizes differ from 100..400mb. Now when I needed some of the files back for nearly every archive I get:
gpg: WARNING: encrypted message has been manipulated! I tried to unpack the resulting archives with $ for file in *.tar.gz ; do tar -xz --ignore-failed-read --ignore-command-error -f $file ; done gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar: Skipping to next header gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors So, as gpg decrypts a damaged gzip file I assume there is no way restore a bit more than the slices so far. My research so far brought only topics related to the fat 4gb problem, wrong mail client wrapping and just one case of a damaged 420GB tgz-archive. This leads to my conclusion that my disk is exceptionally damaged. kardan > tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.22 > gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.10 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
