EMERGENCY! File recorver needed.

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: EMERGENCY! File recorver needed.
started by: Zucca

Posted by Zucca on Aug. 17 2006,23:08

Yup. That's correct.
I propably have a damaged USB mem stick. I managed to copy it's content to my hard drive. Now im in cituation where I need to uncompress all files left in my package (.tar.gz).
If I try to uncompress it says unexpected EOF. Is it possible to rescue files that still exist there?

This is very important. There is my DSL add-on works I plan to publish to all of you. (The server plugin I have been telling about earlier).
I've been working with those file over 2 moths...

Now you ask 'Don't you have backups?'.
- No.
'Why?'
- Because at the time I was just creating new backups and in my own stupidity I first deleted older backups. And somehow my memory sitck got corrupted (or a nasty bug came) just at the very same time. Now I have new mem stick, Reliable!

If you even might know something that may help me, please post your idea.

Thanks.

Posted by Zucca on Aug. 17 2006,23:11

Here's last lines of shell output when I try to uncompress my package:

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drwx--S--- dsl/staff 0 2006-06-11 19:22:50 home/dsl/.abuse/
-rw-rw-r-- dsl/staff 377 2006-06-11 19:21:05 home/dsl/.abuse/abuserc
-rwxrwxr-x dsl/staff 4506936 2006-06-12 00:59:11 home/dsl/.abuse/fastload.dat
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Posted by Zucca on Aug. 21 2006,21:22

I've been searching for a help to this but with no helpful results...
It seems that I have to start my server project all over again.

I hate when these things happen. :angry:

Oh, and this is my 200th post. \o/

Posted by roberts on Aug. 21 2006,22:06

If an individual file is still accessible you might want to try to extract them one by one using, e.g. to extract only "myfile" you would use:

tar -zxvf /mypath/to/backup.tar.gz home/dsl/myfile

HTH

Posted by Zucca on Aug. 22 2006,22:24

Thanks, I'll try that also. =)

Posted by Zucca on Sep. 04 2006,17:14

Ok. I've tried to use CLI tar extracting but It didn't worked at all.

Quote

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/hda10$ tar -zxvf backup.tar.gz opt/bootlacal.sh

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

It seems that I'll be burning newest stable relase of DSL and start my portable server project from scratch. Hopefully it will be even better what it used to be.

Posted by 300c_pilot on Sep. 13 2006,05:12

I would try the shareware version of tar repair at: < http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/tar-file-repair.html >

I couldn't find a linux version of a fixer program.
Good luck.

Posted by keithw on Sep. 17 2006,17:56

There are a couple of tools for extracting data from damaged zip/tar files on the RIP linux livecd. Might be worth a try. You'll need to boot up the livecd and dig through /usr/docs to find the details.

< Link to RIP Linux >

Hope it helps.

Keith