Corrupt Tar Files

I have a tar archive that is erring with:

star: Tar file too small (amount: 0 bytes).
star: Unexpected EOF on input.
star: Cannot recover from error - exiting.
star: 19 blocks + 5120 bytes (total of 199680 bytes = 195.00k).

It seems I have used star to read past problems, but am having trouble 
with this particular tar file.
I have placed the tar file on my anonymous ftp server at:

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/download/KLCH20050916.tar.Z

This is very important data to the Climate community and I have several 
files with this problem from this day.  Any help would be greatly 
appreciated.

Thanks,
Alan.

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Re: Corrupt Tar Files

"Alan.Hall" <Alan.Hall <at> noaa.gov> wrote:

> I have a tar archive that is erring with:
>
> star: Tar file too small (amount: 0 bytes).
> star: Unexpected EOF on input.
> star: Cannot recover from error - exiting.
> star: 19 blocks + 5120 bytes (total of 199680 bytes = 195.00k).
>
> It seems I have used star to read past problems, but am having trouble 
> with this particular tar file.
> I have placed the tar file on my anonymous ftp server at:
>
> ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/download/KLCH20050916.tar.Z
>
> This is very important data to the Climate community and I have several 
> files with this problem from this day.  Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.

You have corrupted compressed inout data:

gzip: stdin: corrupt input.
sdd: Read  390 records + 464 bytes (total of 200144 bytes = 195.45k).
sdd: Wrote 0 records + 0 bytes (total of 0 bytes = 0.00k).

You would need to try recovery programs for the compressed data.

If you are able to recover, you may run star -i on the uncompressed recovered 
data to skip over the bad parts.