[clue-tech] recovery from tar error

[Bruce Ediger]

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jason S. Friedman wrote:

> $ tar xjf /var/backups/server/20.home.tar.bz2
> tar: home/jason/mail/received/2003-03: Wrote only 4608 of
> 10240 bytes
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: home/jason/mail/received/2003-05: Wrote only 0 of
> 10240 bytes
> tar: Skipping to next header

My thought: check how much disk space you have free.  From the tar
output, you could have tried to unpack the file into a filesystem 
with only 4608 bytes free.

It could work the other way too: /var/backups/server didn't have
enough free space to create all of 20.home.tar.bz2, so tar really
did try to unpack a corrupted archive.