Tar error: Unexpected EOF in archive

Question

I tar a directory full of JPEG images:

tar cvfz myarchive.tar.gz mydirectory

When I untar the archive:

tar xvfz myarchive.tar         


        

Answer 1

May be you have ftped the file in ascii mode instead of binary mode ? If not, this might help.

$ gunzip myarchive.tar.gz

And then untar the resulting tar file using

$ tar xvf myarchive.tar

Hope this helps.