From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 5 15:42:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD0737B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:42:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7F043EC5 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D00FE5194F; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:12:39 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:12:39 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Phillip Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! Problems with TAR archives? Message-ID: <20030105234239.GA86831@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 20:30:52 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: > on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen Hovey at shovey@buffnet.net wrote: >> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: >>> Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? >>> >>> freedom# tar -xf www.tar >>> tar: Skipping to next file header... >>> tar: Unknown file type '' for >>> 8˟ܫ[+n_}M2žV28(Uvjuש, extracted as normal file >>> tar: Skipping to next file header... >>> >>> I don't understand what's happened to this archive (and serveral >>> others that represent my entire system backup)? I'm having the >>> same problem with a whole set of archives that I ftp to a remote >>> Windows machine... the ones I stored on my other FreeBSD machine >>> are fine. Did something happen during the transfer? >>> >>> Also, for each archive, the first few items are extracted properly and then >>> there all this junk... any thought _really_ appreciated. If these are >>> corrupt, I've lost a pile of data. >>> >>> Many thanks in advance, >> >> windows ftp defaults to ascii more, not binary, so its adds a \r to each >> \n - you might save your tar files if you upload ascii to get them >> stripped out again. > > Would it be possible to use a script to achieve the same outcome? No, you don't know which \rs have been added. > I've tried re-uploading/downlaoding the files in multiple modes, to > no avail. It should work with binary transfer. > Also, I ftp'd these files TO a Windows box FROM my BSD box, so I > believe that the default mode for that would be binary? What does ftp say? > Are there any other reasons this may have happened? Any way to test? I can't think of any other. It's a traditional problem. You can test by comparing the size of the archives on each side. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message