[BackupPC-users] Archive extract & tar failure

[Johannes W. <joh...@ho...>]

Hi,

all things are working now, only extracting from archives gives me 
headaches.

System: Debian Sarge 3.01a (last Update 1 week ago).
Backuppc installed with apt-get install backuppc.

Archive-Files:
hostname.0.tar.gz.aa
hostname.0.tar.gz.ab

i did the following getting to the content of archive:

cat hostname.0.tar.gz.* > hostname.tar.gz
gunzip -d hostname.tar.gz
tar -xf hostname.tar
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Same Error without spliiting an compressing it. eg. hostname.0.tar.raw

I than tried to reproduce the same procedure as follows:

touch file1 file2 (added some text into it)
tar -cf files.tar file2 file2
gzip files.tar
split -b 60 files.tar.gz files.tar.gz.
cat files.tar.x*> files.tar.gz
gunzip files.tar.gz
tar -xf files.tar
file1 file2

This worked with no problem.

How do you resolve this issue?
I need Archives for moving Backupfiles offsite.


thx
Johannes Wein