[CentOS] Tar Compression issue

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

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.