Tar/Zip/Rar trouble

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb J.L. Coenders um 11:24:
> I have now tried it from the command line and 
> $ tar tzf mytar.tgz
> gives:
> 
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Any ideas?

I think you first want to ctar and compress. "tar tzf" is the command to
test an existing tar.gz ball.

tar czvf Mail.backup.tar.gz ~/Mail
--> will produce your backup file

tar tzvf Mail.backup.tar.gz
--> will print you out the content of the backup file, but will not
deflate it

Instead of parameter z which stands for using gzip you can use j which
stands for bzip2. See "man tar" and "tar --help".

tar cjvf Mail.backup.tar.bz2 ~/Mail
--> will better compress than using gzip

Alexander


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