RE: all.tar.gz issue

Troff wrote:-
> mindi-1.04_cvs_20050503
> mondo-2.04_cvs_20050503.tgz
> Backup of live file system with verify to my RAID 5 hardware
> passed. Selective restore failed.
> snip ----------------------------------->
> tar: Skipping to next header
>   incomplete literal tree
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> end snip ---------------------------------->
> I ran a small backup of /home/troff and all.tar.gz file was aok, and
> selective restores worked fine.

Did you backup to tape? If so, it could be the block size. Mondoarchive has
a switch that lets you specify the block size; try a block size of 8k or
16k. See if that helps.

-Hugo

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