hi,

who knows about the anatomy of .tar files?
i have a .tar file that i once had to made on the fly while moveing the files to an ftp backup server.
i think the action interrupted and thus the file is damaged.

the content is on the first level has only about 100.000 folders
then each folder has about 10 files, mainly html, jpg, gif some pdf,mp3,...
half of all folders dont have any subfolders.
now every complete folder that can be restored with its containing files and the right names would be great,
while without the folders the single files would be nearly worthless or an impossible puzzle
before compressing it it was approximately 450gb (dont remember exactly)

please provide any commands or software names that you can think of.
(its a debian system but i can just run a virtual machine for other software.)

thanks so much!

You might want to go to the Linux forum and ask there considering this a Linux compressed file.

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Iorana Haraharaini

Its pretty well documented since tar has been around for a very long time.
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/ ... ndard.html
http://www.fileformat.info/format/tar/corion.htm