Re: [BackupPC-users] tarExtract: Unexpected end of tar archive

[Tim E. <tk...@tk...>]

On 7/2/21 6:12 PM, bac...@ko... wrote:
> Tim Evans wrote at about 16:35:27 -0400 on Friday, July 2, 2021:
>   > On 7/2/21 2:15 PM, Ademir Rodrigues wrote:
>   > > Hello i'm new user here.
>   > >
>   > > I am with problem in my installation, some hosts appear with error
>   > > "tarExtract: Unexpected end of tar archive"
>   > >
>   > > Exist some log that i can the backup in live view, to help me the better
>   > > identify what is causing the error?
>   >
>   > Review of the archives for this list will show you SMB backups with
>   > BackupPC are highly unreliable.  Numerous of reports like yours have
>   > passed on the list without response. It seems apparent the developers
>   > don't intend to fully support SMB backups.
>   >
> 
> Non-sequitur much?
> The OP is talking about Tar backups and you bring in SMB backups which
> is an entirely different method...

UM, SMB backups use the Samba utility "smbtar'.  This error occurs at 
the very end of a backup as Linux's 'tar' is unpacking the backups 
created by 'smbtar'.


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