Ubuntu
backuppc package

untarring tar archive form backuppc "Skipping to next header"

Bug #725119 reported by Samuel Wolf
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backuppc (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: backuppc

when creating very large backups (~300GB), we sometimes see these
warnings when untarring using gnu tar(version 1.22-2ubuntu1):

# tar xf server1.28.tar.raw
tar: Springe zum nächsten Kopfteil.
tar: Springe zum nächsten Kopfteil.
tar: Beende mit Fehlerstatus aufgrund vorheriger Fehler

"Springe zum nächsten Kopfteil." means "Skipping to next header".
restore seems to work ok.

backuppc 3.1.0-9ubuntu1
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS"

Revision history for this message
Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

It means your tarballs are corrupted. Nothing we can do about it.

Changed in backuppc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Samuel Wolf (samuel-wolf) wrote :

the hardware is ok, it is backuppc's own tar implementation that produces broken tarballs in some rare cases - so definitely this is a bug that should be fixed.

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