bsdtar.gz | 7-zip = broken file RESOLVED

[cpcnw]

Hi All

I am using rsync to create nightly incremental backups and creating tar balls of these.

Just last night I logged into the n4f via pptp on my wintop, copied across one of the said tar balls (using WinSCP) then tried to open it via 7-Zip file manager which resulted in an error message. The same thing happened with WinZip ie complained about broken file.

I made sure WInSCP was using binary mode but it made no difference.

Copying across a tar ball from a linux box on the same network and using the method above works perfectly.

Is there something about bsdtar that I need to know about?

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FIXED: Turns out that it was the way I was passing options to bsdtar

My script had ;

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# tar -cfz tarfile.tar.gz /directory/iwant

Removing the leading '-' from the options so that the command reads;

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# tar cfz tarfile.tar.gz /directory/iwant

Apparently *with* the '-' is the traditional Unix syntax although bsdtar supports both - there is a subtle difference!!!

[kerrymanam]

Check this one ..........7-Zip 9.20

Kerry