"tar -xzf" error: "tar.child died with signal 13"
 

Dear All,

I have just installed my backup from Dell RD1000 on the platform of Red Hat enterprise version 4 with the command " tar -xzf /dev/sdc", but I got the following messages in the end of the restoring.
I checked the files restored. It seems that all are there. I wonder if there is any problem with the data I have just installed. Can anyone confirm me this? Thanks a lot in advance.

vlsi

I looked up linux signals on Google. It took about five seconds to find this page.

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/...pgsignals.html

That page says that signal 13 means
We know that when you specify -xz in the tar command you will actually start two processes. One will run tar, the other will run gzip to unzip the tar file. You were restoring from a file so the gzip would have been reading the tar archive and sending it to the tar utility. So evidently the tar utility exited before gzip was finished talking to it.

Thanks for this explanation :).

Thanks for the explanation! For your information, the data restored is working fine.

In spite of the error message or did you succeed running it without error? What happened exactly :scratch: ?