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Ok, cd into recovery1.
Here, we have the beginning of a tar file, nothing's corrupted, but the tar file is not complete.
Right. That makes things easy.
We will just bunzip all the small archives into one recovery1.tar file:
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bzip2 \-dc rec*.bz2 > recovery1.tar
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recovery2 !! cd ../recovery2
Hmmmm trying the same method as above fails. Why that ? Because tar sux. Yes, it does.
It does not manage to find a correct header right at the start of the file, and so, fails.
Creepy, huh ? But we are smarter than Tar, and there's not much that a little of Perl Magic can't solve.
First, let's have our bzip2 small archives bunziped into a "failing" tar.
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bzip2 \-dc rec*.bz2 > recovery2_failing.tar
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To do so, do the following :
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tail \-c \+17185 recovery2_failing.tar > recovery2_working.tar |
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tar tf recovery2_working.tar |
Yoodelihoo ! You did it !!
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