On 2016-10-16 22:58, Chris wrote:
jdd wrote:
Le 03/10/2016 à 21:10, John Andersen a écrit :
In those years, I've had a grand total of ZERO tar.gz archives fail.
I had some, mostly due to file transfer or hardware problems, but no file in it could be read
Second that. Had the same problem after an apparently failed SFTP transfer. But there was no error message. The copy seemed valid. If I hadn't packed the files, only single files probably were affected.
To avoid the problem you have to compress the files individually, so that an error in one doesn't affect the rest (first compress, then tar). Or use a compressor that includes error recovery capabilities, such as rar. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)