[Nottingham] tar verify failure
Johannes Kling
jok at printk.net
Mon Feb 14 11:31:07 GMT 2005
> Theres about 16000 files on this tape. What can I grep for to see if
> something hasn't verified?
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$ strings $(which tar) | grep -i verify
Cannot verify stdin/stdout archive
Verify
VERIFY FAILURE: %d invalid headers detected
VERIFY FAILURE: %d invalid header detected
-W, --verify attempt to verify the archive after writing it
Cannot verify compressed archives
Cannot verify multi-volume archives
verify
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I'd say "VERIFY FAILURE" would be a good guess :-).
Regards,
Jo
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