From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 15:36:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30CA91065670 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdkelly@ualr.edu) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28998FC0C for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcmm1 with SMTP id m1so87857vcm.13 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:36:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.91.196 with SMTP id cg4mr9006014vdb.68.1329232120214; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:08:40 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.224.202 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:08:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Mike Kelly Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:08:20 -0600 Message-ID: To: _ , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlAO+2EZiuDgC+Wl/AnexdwSH3JiEsrSjEJC1niKc/WQlONCJEogMWa6wbOWUnGtItN6G0u Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:( X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:36:48 -0000 > > I don't have the script anymore. It is among the files lost, but it was > pretty > much straight forward, making use of: > tar -czf backupfile.tar.gz folders/ of/ my/ choice/. > > After creating the backups I just cp(1)ed them to an msdosfs formated > usb stick and got them onto 8.2 this way, so the famous ascii/binary > trap shouldn't be > an issue here. > > Just a thought... how large were the tar.gz files? Are you maybe hitting on a file size limit and the .tar.gz files are getting truncated? Not sure what the limit is for msdosfs. -- Mike Kelly