Alternate methods to recover corrupt tar file apart from commercial tool

Asked By Dennis Azal 30 points N/A Posted on - 11/21/2012

What other alternate methods are available to recover corrupt tar file apart from the commercially available Advanced TAR file recovery and when is the most appropriate period to recover the corrupted files before complete distortion?

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Answered By Aurtt munguia 0 points N/A #157139

Alternate methods to recover corrupt tar file apart from commercial tool

 

I suggest using cpio utility "copy in and out".

It's a file archiver associated with file formats and part of most Linux operating system releases.

Many users were able to recover corrupted tar files using this utility, you can try this command,

$ cpio -ivm -H tar < new-try/new-try.tar

Hope this solution works for you and if it didn't try a program called "star".

 

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