On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
On 03/18/2014 10:22 AM, Bonnie B Mtengwa wrote:
I have a file Server CentOS 5.10, its on the internet, so I compress all csv into one file using (tar -czvf compressed_files.tar.gz *.csv) on this server so that I can download them as one compressed file to save bandwidth, Disk space on this server available is 50Gig, so when I copy the files onto Redhat EL 5.9 and decompress them using (tar -zxvf *.gz) It decompresses maybe 80% then get error:
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
what might be the issue here?
corrupt file when downloading? try gunzip -t on the server to confirm archive is ok on that end. and you could md5sum as well, to test the integrity of what you dl'd.
Maybe the classic ftp text vs, binary transfer? Personally I would have used rsync over ssh with the -z option for compression since it is one simple command, very efficient, repeatable and restartable.