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Operating Systems Solaris USTAR tar archive Post 302492508 by snchaudhari2 on Monday 31st of January 2011 08:19:58 PM
Old 01-31-2011
USTAR tar archive

Hello Admins,

I am facing an issue with ustar tar archive on solaris 10.

By mistake I have created ustar tar archive of /var/adm/messages file on solaris10.
I am trying to untar the /var/adm/messages file . but I am not getting the original text messages file.

I user tar -xvf /var/adm/messages...

but no luck

Help appreciated

---------- Post updated at 08:19 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:41 PM ----------

HI...
i guess it has overwritten all the file from /var/adm directory to
/var/adm/messages ustar archive file...

Oh...I think I lost my /var/adm/messages file......

Please suggest
 

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ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				       ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)

NAME
archive_read_new -- functions for reading streaming archives LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive) SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h> struct archive * archive_read_new(void); DESCRIPTION
Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an archive. NULL is returned on error. A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3). SEE ALSO
tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3), archive_read_set_options(3), archive_util(3), tar(5) BSD
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