[Bug-tar] Re: Untar on big archive fails

[Rolf Leggewie]

Rolf Leggewie wrote:

> I made a backup of one of my partitions.  The data was well over ten 
> Gigabytes.  The backup was made from Knoppix 3.7 to a fat32 partition 
> which necessitated splitting of the tar file.  The command I used was 
> 'tar -cv /mnt/hdc1/|split -b 722222222 - /mnt/hdd1/bigboy.tar.'  which 
> resulted in 20 split files (summing up to 12GB).  Now I apparently 
> cannot get tar to restore all files from the archive.

Hi,

the reason for the failure was that one of the split files was corrupted 
in transport (verified with md5sum).  After replacing it, the restore 
from the backup went smooth.  I am still amazed that tar would just 
silently abort and not give an error message.

Best

Rolf