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? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/tar-%7C-gzip-problems-tp25612830p25612830.html Sent from the Gnu - Tar - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
