I needed to move lots of data from one site to another across europe. I got a huge disk and archived all data onto that using something like (simplified):
find | cpio -o | gpg -e | split - /disk/archive. To extract the data again, it's just as simple: cat `find /disk/archive.* | sort` | gpg -d | cpio -i This have worked perfectly for a number of these data moves I've done over the last few months... But this last one gave me a problem when trying to unpack it: gpg: invalid radix64 character D0 skipped gpg: invalid radix64 character 00 skipped gpg: invalid radix64 character AD skipped gpg: invalid radix64 character DE skipped [these four lines repeats for a while] gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=73) gpg: mdc_packet with invalid encoding gpg: decryption failed: Invalid packet gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=36) gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. cpio: premature end of file There's 1498 4GB files, and I managed to extract 792GB before this failure. But since the archive files is in ASCII armor, there's no telling in which file the problem lies! I'm currently looking for '^-|.*:|^$' in the files, but so far nothing... 1. What character is D0, 00, AD and DE? What can I look for (to try to diagnose the problem/file) 2. Is there ANYTHING I can do to get my data, exept making a new archive (which, for various reasons, take about two-three weeks)? I've googled this problem, but most (if not all) get this when/if receiving an ASCII armor via mail which messes things up. I doubt very much that's the problem here, since I'm using the exact, identical file I started with, not a copy (which is the result of mailing it)... _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users