what happens when you do it without compression? As a test, try:
tar cf - Mail | tar tvf -
Then, if that works with no problems:
tar czf - Mail | tar tzvf -
If that works, the only thing left that I can think of is serious disk
problems... let me know if those commands report errors or not though...
J.L. Coenders wrote:
>Does the corruption happen with different sources to
tar/gzip/bzip2?
I am now testing some other sources. It seems to happen with large files.
>Does while archiving in verbose mode appear any error message?
No, the archiving itself does not give any messages. The testing does.
>What are the commands you run?
$ tar cvzf mail.tar.gz Mail
or
$ tar cvjf mail.tar.bz2 Mail
For the testing I use:
$ tar tvzf mail.tar.gz
or
$ tar tvjf mail.tar.bz2
>Compression errors often occurs because of bad/damaged RAM.
I do not seem to have other problems, which you would expect with bad or
damaged RAM.
Jeroen