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Subject: Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:56 PM, _ <pancakeking79@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before making the move from 7.0 to 8.2, I ran a little script that did a
> backup of selected files
> and folders.
>
> Trying to recover these files on 8.2, I found that some of the archives -
> unfortunately those with
> the files that are dear to me - are corrupted.
>
> In other words, I just wanted to ask if there's anyone on here, who knows
> of a good repair
> utility for corrupted tar.gz archives?
>
> Thanks
>
> pancakeking79

Hrm....What command/script did you run to create the archive? How did
you transfer it over to the new system? What command are you using to
attempt to extract it, and what error is it giving?

You can try:
gunzip < archive.tar.gz > archive.partial.tar
Which may or may not giving you some of the files into the
archive.partial.tar file.

What does gzip --test archive.tar.gz give?