directory checksum error recovering a tar-gzip file

[Edison Burnengo_1]

Hi,
I has created a tar file whith the follow sentence:

tar cf - ./u01/dir1 | gzip > /exports/tarfile.Z

When I try to recover the information with the sentence
gunzip < /exports/tarfile.Z | tar xvf - .

it recovers many files and directories and then I received the messagge

"directory checksum error"

Can I recover the complete data? How?

Thanks in advance.

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

there may be an error to the one of the files u try to recover. if u do a "tar tvf", what is the last file it try to "untar", that may give u some clues.

regards.

[Edison Burnengo_1]

Thaks for your response,

I know the last file that was recovered. this is the last file that appears in "tar tvf" too.
We dont know how we can skip this file or the directory to continue with the restore or how repear the file.

thanks again.

[Stephen Keane]

Would using pax help? There is a flag on pax (-c) which says extract all files execpt those matching the pattern. you could use that to skip the dodgy directory?