Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:49:52 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011844193.063d00@mired.org> To: Philippe Rathe <prathe@reevescommunication.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: corruped files with tar to a tape Message-ID: <15432.60640.829019.127594@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <61382228@toto.iv>
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Philippe Rathe <prathe@reevescommunication.com> types: > Maybe we will loose our backup. I hope note.... > I use this to backup from a samba share mount with mount_smbfs to ascsi > tape: > > cd /mnt/samba_share > tar -zc some_directory I hope you meant "-zc some_file".. > The output of tar look like this : > > tar: file file.html shrunk by 144 bytes, padding with zeros. > tar: file file2.html shrunk by 172 bytes, padding with zeros. Is your samba share set up to automatically translate newlines on read? > It has the same size of the original but the end of the files ( 5%) > has been overwritten by zeros! Is the old end of the file still there, followed by all those nulls? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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