Re: [HELP]: Star+gzip file corruption?

"Chris Bshaw" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi....
>
> I am trying to use star to create a compressed multivolume archive of a 
> large amount of data on a remote server, and then download it to another 
> machine and extract.
>
> However,  I have been experiencing file corruption problems. The commands I 
> am using are at the end of this email.
...

> The problem manifests itself in one of the volumes of the multi volume 
> archive during decompression when I am downloading....I have discovered that 
> if I manually try to gunzip the specific multi volume file which gives the 
> problem I get the following message:
>
> gunzip: dos82.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

I am sorry, but this looks like the  compressed data is corrupt for some cases.

If you are able to repeat this problem, it might be worth to look at it.

Jörg

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