tar Exiting with failure...?

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i'm untaring with this command tar -pxvzf filename.tar.gz an everything seems to be going fine but, it unexpectedly exits with the error below. Is there a reason why I'm receive this error and / or prevent it?

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Followed the suggestion from people who replied and removed the -v. this is the output errors (see below). This is a backup of a joomla cms site. Any idea what would cause these errors? The only thing I could thing of is the cache and tmp folders might be causing it with the weird characters that it may have

tar: Archive contains `nsion.pd' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `Party.pd' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `manent C' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `ial Circ' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `pdf0444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `pring 20' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `.pdf444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `pdf0444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `up from ' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `ting.pdf' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `on.pdf4' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `f100444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `ptions t' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `f100444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `pdf0444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `f100444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `ter.pdf' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `ted.pdf' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `df00444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `Inc..pdf' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `d.pdf44' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `Network.' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `df00444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `rship Aw' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `.pdf444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `ition.pd' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `df00444' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `9.pdf44' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `1.pdf4' where numeric mode_t value expected
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

try removing the -v flag to see the real error why that is happening. — Mike, May 02 '12 at 14:03

Khaled · Answer 1 · 2012-05-02T14:13:48.660

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Your command will invoke tar which will invoke gunzip to uncompress the file first. You can use two commands to check for possible errors like file corruption as follows:

$ gunzip filename.tar.gz

The above command will produce the file filename.tar. Then, you can use:

$ tar -pxvf filename.tar

This should help you in debugging the problem. You can also remove the -v from the command to disable files listing which may help you to focus on the error messages only.

edited May 02 '12 at 14:13

answered May 02 '12 at 14:04

Khaled

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Removing the 'v' from the tar command will reduce the output too and may aid in seeing other relevant messages – user9517 May 02 '12 at 14:09

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