Re: [Help-tar] tar | gzip problems

[Piotr Szlązak]

Hi!
Try using gzip -c:
nohup tar cvpf -  . | gzip -9 -c > /directory/of/interest/files.tar.gz &

Regards,
Piotrek

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 16:10, cooch17 <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Strange one - I have a large directory structure I'd like to tar up,
> preserving permissions and links and such. I wrote a small script (say,
> backup_files), which pipes tar to gzip to generate the .gz file.
>
> cd /directory/of/interest
> rm -r -f files.tar.gz
> nohup tar cvpf -  . | gzip -9 > /directory/of/interest/files.tar.gz &
>
>
> Seems to work fine, except that the .gz file is always reported as corrupted
> (have tried 3-4 different archive tools to open and access files - they all
> report that files.tar.gz is corrupt.
>
>
> But...if I don't use a pipe
>
> tar -cvpf files.tar *
>
> then
>
> gzip -9 files.tar
>
> then the resulting files.tar.gz is absolutely fine. I've reproduced this
> sequence 3-4 times now.
>
> So, something I can't suss out when tar pipes to gzip is causing a major
> problem.
>
> Suggestions? Pointers to the obvious?
>
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