I'm also getting a cryptic E_FAIL from 7za, but I'm not doing any encrypting. Should this be a separate bug?
# dd if=/dev/sda bs=1024k conv=noerror,sync | pv | 7za a ./backup-sda.7z -si -bd 7-Zip (A) 4.58 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov 2008-05-05 p7zip Version 4.58 (locale=en_GB.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Creating archive ./backup-sda.7z Compressing [Content]/s] [ <=> ] System error: E_FAIL 6.83GB 0:57:38 [2.02MB/s] [ <=> ] For now I'll just use gzip, but it would be nice to compress my raw disk images on-the-fly with 7z. -- 7zip fails to encrypt, says "E_FAIL" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246861 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
