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.