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Topic: EMERGENCY! File recorver needed., Need to rescue files from .tar.gz-

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Zucca

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Posted: 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.

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Zucca

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Posted: 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

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Zucca

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Posted: 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/

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roberts

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Posted: 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