gunzip: invalid compressed data--format violated

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Published on 2011-06-28T05:19:54Z Indexed on 2011/06/28 8:24 UTC
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Problem definition: I transferred a tar.gz file from a Linux machine to a Windows partition.The Windows partition has mounted with the Linux server as cifs.

OS : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5

Symptom:

After the copy process is successful, doing an integrity check with gunzip -t and the process get the following error:

gunzip -t Backup-28--Jun--2011--Tuesday.tar.gz

gunzip: Backup-28--Jun--2011--Tuesday.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

And further tried to untar (tar -xvzf) and the process as well is failed.

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