Before I wiped redhat to install debian several weeks ago, I backed up my
/etc, /root, and /home directories to .tar.gz's on another drive.
Unfortunately I was overconfident that my syntax was correct, and that
there were no other problems that could occur -- I think I verified that I
could re-open the /etc & /root archives, but the /home one was bigger than
I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I
found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?).
What do I have to do to restore my data ? I know it's doable, I just
don't know if I'm gonna have to re-write half the kernel, gzip, and tar,
which I won't be doing real soon. I have also considered installing
windows again on another drive, and seeing if winzip can handle it,
because I remember it could handle .tar.gz's, but I'd prefer not to....
Any option that will get me even pieces of my data will be helpful -- the
normal syntax to extract single files doesn't even work. Is there any
chance I could tear it in half (how?) and be able to extract one of the
halves ? I'm not that familiar with the guts of these things.
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