I have a bunch of tarball backups which I just restored onto my new Windows 8.1 + Cygwin system using GNU tar:zsh$ for file in **/*.tgz; do tar xvzf $file; doneTo my surprise a lot of these extracted files were corrupt. I tried replacing GNU tar with BSD tar and repeated the process, but the same files were still corrupt.Then I tried extracting them with WinRAR, and they turned up just fine. Does anybody know what's going on?
Corrupt files after extracting with Cygwin's GNU tar
zsh;backup;tar;cygwin;gnu