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Subject: Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(
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krad <kraduk@gmail.com> writes:

> Just another silly thought try the tar j flag rather than the z flag, as
> you might have got your compression algorithms confused. Try the xz one as
> well just in case

The system tar (based on libarchive) will figure all of this out for
you, regardless of which flag you give it.