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Subject: Re: tar: Damaged tar archive, Retrying...
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:49:23 -0500
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015, at 15:43, Marcus Reid wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:40:02PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am currently using tar to copy some very files to another host and
> > got this:
> > > tar: Damaged tar archive
> > > tar: Retrying...
> > > tar: Damaged tar archive
> > > tar: Retrying...
> > > tar: Damaged tar archive
> > > tar: Retrying...
> > > tar: Damaged tar archive
> > > tar: Retrying...
> > > tar: Damaged tar archive
> > 
> > The copy is done using tar|nc and nc|tar on the receiving host.
> > This looks like a bug and I wonder whether the copy is OK.
> 
> I have submitted a bug report for a problem that causes this output.
> It's likely the same bug that you're encountering.
> 
> The fix is upstream in libarchive, but in the meantime you can use gtar
> :(
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201506
> 

Thanks for pointing out this PR. I'll try to get some movement behind
this.