[Lustre-discuss] problems restoring from MDT backup (test file system)

[Frederik Ferner]

Brian,

thanks for your reply.

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:21 +0000, Frederik Ferner wrote: 
>> tar tizf test_MDT_Backup.tar.gz
>> ....
>> ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/
>> ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/iozone.DUMMY.47
>> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> </snip>
> 
> Looks to me like either your tar executable is broken or your archive is
> broken.  A typical process of elimination should help you discover which
> is the case.

It certainly looks like it's the tar archive that is broken. I get the 
same when I copy it over to a different machine. Unless is the tar 
executable that is broken so that it creates the broken archive as every 
time I create a new archive it seems to be broken at the same place.

Other tar files created on the same machine don't have that problem, but
I'll try creating a new archive with a new executable.

Thanks,
Frederik
-- 
Frederik Ferner
Computer Systems Administrator		phone: +44 1235 77 8624
Diamond Light Source Ltd.		mob:   +44 7917 08 5110
(Apologies in advance for the lines below. Some bits are a legal
requirement and I have no control over them.)