Comments on: Create tarball https://www.krazyworks.com/create-tarball/ Networking, Systems Design, and Disaster Recovery Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:54:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 By: Joey 01 https://www.krazyworks.com/create-tarball/comment-page-1/#comment-247807 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:09:32 +0000 http://www.comradegeneral.com/SysAdmin/?p=16#comment-247807 http://www.fedorafaq.org/#flash

I got the command prompts from this site and I keep getting the response; nothing to do.

What could be going wrong?
I just installed the OS so I know Flash is not on my computer

]]> By: John G https://www.krazyworks.com/create-tarball/comment-page-1/#comment-247755 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:18:42 +0000 http://www.comradegeneral.com/SysAdmin/?p=16#comment-247755 I have a PERL script creating a TAR archive via PERL’s Archive::TAR class. I get a listing of the files & directory structure by recursing through the tree & putting all into a list.

Then I use: $TarObject->create_archive
($ArchiveFile, $CompressionLevel, @FilesToTar); where I have used compression levels 2 & 9. These create TARs of about 40+ MB.

When I retrieve the TARs to my workstation I attempt to run them through tar -xzvf and I get:
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data–format violated
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I have attempted to use gzip & uncompress as well.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Mark
OT, A little further research led me to tweaking my code to set the transfer mode to binary and that was it, I was able to completely untar & gunzip the files after that. You get best answer when I can choose.
Thanks
Mark

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