donoreo Premium Member join:2002-05-30 North York, ON |
donoreo
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2014-Jan-16 4:05 pm
Unexpected EOF when creating a tar fileI have never seen this before. I have seen it many times when extracting but not when creating a tar. Any ideas? Google is not turning up anything. |
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Do you have enough disk space? Any of the files you are trying to tar up in use? |
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donoreo Premium Member join:2002-05-30 North York, ON |
donoreo
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2014-Jan-16 4:40 pm
Yes and no. |
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dave Premium Member join:2000-05-04 not in ohio |
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Any network involved for either input or output?
Is the error repeatable with the same input? |
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donoreo Premium Member join:2002-05-30 North York, ON |
donoreo
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2014-Jan-16 5:04 pm
No network. Not sure, I am not the one that had the error, I am the one looking for a reason. Will check on it. |
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BranoI hate Vogons MVM join:2002-06-25 Burlington, ON |
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Are you tar-ing any special files? e.g. /proc /dev or similar? |
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said by donoreo:I have never seen this before. When that has happened to me, it was because I messed up the command line. |
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leibold MVM join:2002-07-09 Sunnyvale, CA Netgear CG3000DCR ZyXEL P-663HN-51
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Does the user have a wildcard expression for the files to be included in the archive that expands to also match the tar file itself ? Trying to back up a backup file into itself can result in obscure, possibly misleading error messages and you didn't specify which of the many implementations of tar was used. |
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donoreo Premium Member join:2002-05-30 North York, ON |
donoreo
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2014-Jan-17 4:08 pm
Solved: file system limitation on AIX. Adjusted the size in ulimit. |
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ExodusYour Daddy Premium Member join:2001-11-26 Earth |
Exodus
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2014-Jan-17 4:22 pm
I forgot to think about the ulimits. Also didn't realize you were working on AIX.
Yay, I'm not alone. Another AIX admin. |
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dennismurphyPut me on hold? I'll put YOU on hold Premium Member join:2002-11-19 Parsippany, NJ |
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I was about to ask which platform... Solaris' tar does oddball things like that. Use GNU tar for good health. Same is true on AIX ... HPUX tar hasn't given me an issue in many years, but even there, keep some good GNU tools stuffed in /usr/local and be happy. Even with the ulimit adjustments, I'd still use GNU Tar.... I'm not as intimately familiar with AIX as I am Solaris, but Sun's tar always had some arbitrary pathname length limitations. GNU tar saves you from dealing with that. |
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darciliciousCyber Librarian Premium Member join:2001-01-02 Forest Grove, OR ·Ziply Fiber
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said by dennismurphy:Solaris' tar does oddball things like that. Use GNU tar for good health. hahahaha, that brings back memories! |
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dennismurphyPut me on hold? I'll put YOU on hold Premium Member join:2002-11-19 Parsippany, NJ |
said by darcilicious:said by dennismurphy:Solaris' tar does oddball things like that. Use GNU tar for good health. hahahaha, that brings back memories! No kidding! I'm a sales weasel these days so I don't bang on the keyboard as much anymore, but I still have the battle scars to prove it. (BTW, moving to a sales position has been the best decision I've ever made. I get to stay technical (I'm a weasel but I get to be my own SE most of the time), I get to engineer very cool solutions, I get paid well, and best of all, I don't have to do on-call rotations. |
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darciliciousCyber Librarian Premium Member join:2001-01-02 Forest Grove, OR ·Ziply Fiber
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said by dennismurphy:and best of all, I don't have to do on-call rotations. More memories! Yikes, I don't miss those days at all. I still to do technie stuff but it's in support of (primarily) public libraries and in general, *nix isn't spoke (though there are a few libraries that run linux for their public computers). Moving more into training and coordinating statewide technology-related programs... |
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