From: karel@icce.rug.nl () Subject: [HELP] tar and compression Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 07:18:41 GMT
Hi Wizzes:
I know that my question is not relevant to Linux, but please help me out if
you can. I failed to find a suitable (unmoderated) newsgroup for GNU utilities
or for GNU Tar.
The question is this. I'm using GNU Tar 1.11.2, and I don't seem to be
able to get the compression working when making tape backups to a remote unit
(i.e., across the net, indirectly using rsh which is started by tar).
The typical error messages are, "can't close device (128,-1)" or "IO error".
Another distressing one is "tar (child): archive at EOF not at block
boundary".
Any suggestions? The strange thing is, that backups without compression seem
to work ok.. but whenever attempting compression with either -z (gzip) or -Z
(compress), the child program tar, which reads the data back from the
compression program, seems to go haywire (or for that matter, possibly the
compression program goes haywire).
Any suggestions are welcome -
Karel.
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