I managed to get it working. I ran "tar xvzf ./backup.zip" and everything extracted to my /windows/C/tmp directory. It made a new folder called /home/tom/blah. I also managed to just extract certain folders, with the help of Sid Boyce. He suggested I run "tar jcBpfv /XXX/backup.zip /home" That didn't exactly work, but running "tar -xczf /backup.zip home/tom/images" did extract the files I wanted...just in the directory where the zip file was located. Not a big deal..I just cut and paste. If anyone has any questions....for heaven sakes, don't ask me. I've done so much tonight I can't remember why I was doing this at all. Thanks to all....and to all a good night. Tom On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:47, Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 14:50, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Now when I backed it up, I did the following "tar -czvf /mnt/windows/C/tmp/backup.zip /home/tom" When I look at my windows drive, I can see the file in there and the size is 1.2gb. I have another zip file which I did of my /srv directory and I can't access that either. I don't have an answer that you will like, but I can sympathize , and do. I lost a whole months work that way, tho in my case it was all Linux stuff <sigh> Someone told me then that there is (often?) trouble w/ tared archives. Tho I'm sure many never have even a sniff of a problem, I just bought more cd's and backup uncompressed files .. That is uncompressed unless the file is a download that I got tarred , zipped , gzipped etc. Those seem most of the time to be okay.. IT sounds like your files might still be intact. Mine gave the impression that everything was peachy.. it wasn't, adn to thig day I can't get anything more than I got when I tried to put it back onto a nice clean new install..
I'll try to log into windows and see if I can unzip from there.
tom