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From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us>
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Subject: Re: tar & ssh: strange gzip error message?
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* Zev Thompson <zevt@schemasoft.com> [2004-03-30 11:14]:
> Hi all,
> 
> If I want to copy a bunch of files over ssh without extra servers, it's 
> easy enough to use the following command:
> 
> [user@beastie]$ ssh user@example.com "cd /directory/to/copy && tar -cvf 
> - *" | tar -xf - -C .
> 
> This works without complaint. However, when I change the options passed 
> to tar, adding gzip compression on one end and decompression on the 
> other:
> 
> [user@beastie]$ ssh user@example.com "cd /directory/to/copy && tar 
> -cvzf - *" | tar -xzf - -C .
> 
> I get this error message:
> 
> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
> tar: Child died with signal 13
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Is my method wrong? It appears that the files transferred just fine, 

I don't think so...

[joshua@cs025_2k]$ ssh joshua@twobirds.us "cd /test && tar -cvzf - *"
| tar -xzf - -C .

GUIDE.pdf
HeterogenousClusters.pdf
SecurityAndopenMosix.pdf

[joshua@cs035_2k]$

Both forms work happily here, but i did notice on subsequent copies of
the same files I experienced some data corruption:

GUIDE.pdf
HeterogenousClusters.pdf
SecurityAndopenMosix.pdf
tar: SecurityAndopenMosix.pdf: file changed as we read it
linux-kongress_2003_openMosix.pdf
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


-- 
Joshua

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