On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com