corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(

[Lowell Gilbert]

krad <kraduk at gmail.com> writes:

> Just another silly thought try the tar j flag rather than the z flag, as
> you might have got your compression algorithms confused. Try the xz one as
> well just in case

The system tar (based on libarchive) will figure all of this out for
you, regardless of which flag you give it.