-----Original Message----- From: Tom Nielsen <tom@neuro-logic.com> To: Suse <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:47:43 -0800 Subject: Re: [SLE] Problem with backup after 9.0 install....need help! (anyone???)
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
You can't AFAIK use windows to "unzip" a tar file. It isn't in zip format it's tarred. That like trying to read an openoffice spreadsheet with vi, it just won't work. That fact the the file was given a ".zip" extension does not make it a zip file. Ken