Hi,
we hv been using tar -czvf to take backup of one of our local development Oracle Database files [15 files] onto the same server [different mount point]. This method just helped us to quickly take a backup onto the same server & when needed for restoration, it was faster[we hv been doing this without any probs for quite sometime now].
But, last week, the extraction of this .tgz file failed with the error
# tar -xzvf datatop.tgz gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now #
Suspecting a one-off case of file corruption, we rescheduled the .tgz backup. But unfortunately, the .tgz got corrupted again on the second day. This time around we suspected a bad file-system & we ran a check on the SAN Harddisk [onto which the .tgz backup was happening], but we couldn't find any issues. Hence we mounted a new SAN harddisk & rescheduled the .tgz backups onto this harddisk. But today again the .tgz extraction is failing with the same error.
The only thing that we were able to find is that one of the database file [out of 15 files] is in inconsistent state, does this mean that - a tar -czvf backup will fail if one of the file during backup is inconsistent [or corrupted?]
This is happening on one of our Redhat AS 3.0 server [we hv 10 Redhat dev servers & none of them r hvn'ng this issue]
the command used for backup is "# tar -czvf /SAN02/datatop.tgz /u02/datatop"
Request you assistance in resolving this issue.
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