Re: [BackupPC-users] archive retrival

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

> I've got an archive created using 2.1.0beta0 archive settings to bzip2
> compression and to 650 Mb volumes and I need to extract files from the
> series, but I've had problems figuring out what I need to do to the file
> now.
> 
> Tar with multi-volume setting won't read the file because it is
> compressed, but trying to unzip the beginning file using bunzip2
> file_name just complains that the compressed file ends unexpectedly.

This should work:

    1) Copy all the files into a single directory.

    2) Cat them together (undo the split)

    3) bunzip2 the file (undo the bzip2)

    4) tar xvf the uncompressed file.

Craig