Tarball Repair Software Required

chazzy · 06-13-2006, 08:46 PM

Hi there,

I took a back up the other day before reinstalling dapper and have just tried to restore it to be told its corrupt... However, I can use the demo of "Advanced Tar Repair" in windows and it successfully dry run lists all of the files in the tarball - It's 1.4GB so im hoping theres something in it!

Does anyone know any sneaky ways or means of getting even some of the files back? It's not g/b-zipped or whatnot, just tarred.

I suspect the problem was the tarball was moved across FTP using the wrong binary/ascii setting ... and I didn't happen to check on the otherside (Lesson learnt there).

Any ideas would be most appreciated, and I'll be sending the beer round.

Thank you very much in advance.

Chaz

bosewicht · 06-13-2006, 09:02 PM

found this here

http://support.bb4.com/archive/200109/msg00721.html

Quote:

Got this as a tip from a mailing list I subscribe to long ago...worth a
try...

EXTRACT CORRUPTED TAR FILE

In many case if there is a corrupted tar file,
the following command can be used in an attempt
to extract the file:

% cat [tar-filename] | tar -xvf -

NOTE: Where "-" is the STDOUT

chazzy · 06-13-2006, 09:31 PM

Hey..

It looked so promising ... but almost immediately, it died.

cat chaz.tar | tar -xvf -

chaz/
chaz/.wine/
chaz/.wine/dosdevices/
chaz/.wine/dosdevices/c:
chaz/.wine/dosdevices/z:
chaz/.wine/dosdevices/d:
chaz/.wine/drive_c/
chaz/.wine/drive_c/windows/
chaz/.wine/drive_c/windows/command/
chaz/.wine/drive_c/windows/command/start.exe
chaz/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/
chaz/.wine/drive_c/windows/inf/
chaz/.wine/drive_c/windows/inf/wine.inf
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Thanks anyway