Corruption

Martin Stone martin.stone at db.com
Fri Apr 30 14:57:50 UTC 2004


what happens when you do it without compression?  As a test, try:

tar cf - Mail | tar tvf -

Then, if that works with no problems:

tar czf - Mail | tar tzvf -

If that works, the only thing left that I can think of is serious disk 
problems... let me know if those commands report errors or not though...

J.L. Coenders wrote:
>>Does the corruption happen with different sources to tar/gzip/bzip2?
> 
> 
> I am now testing some other sources. It seems to happen with large files.
> 
> 
>>Does while archiving in verbose mode appear any error message?
> 
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> No, the archiving itself does not give any messages. The testing does.
> 
> 
>>What are the commands you run?
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> $ tar cvzf mail.tar.gz Mail
> or 
> $ tar cvjf mail.tar.bz2 Mail
> 
> For the testing I use:
> $ tar tvzf mail.tar.gz
> or
> $ tar tvjf mail.tar.bz2
> 
> 
>>Compression errors often occurs because of bad/damaged RAM.
> 
> 
> I do not seem to have other problems, which you would expect with bad or 
> damaged RAM. 
> 
> Jeroen
> 
> 






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