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I was doing a : tar -cvf and I had to killed it with ctrl-C. I know I should have done a Ctrl-Z and then bring back the task to foreground... but it's not the story.

Can I resume from the point I stopped the task ?

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Is there an incomplete tar file in the destination location? – Karthik T Dec 6 '12 at 9:35
Yes there is an incomplete tar. – mthpvg Dec 6 '12 at 10:05

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The best solution would be to delete the tar file and restart the process prepended with nohup and appended with &. Alternatively, you could run tar -tfv and use that as an exclude for the new tar -cvf.

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tar -cvf will overwrite the existing file. Did you mean tar -rvf? Also, the last file that was written to the archive was likely incomplete. – Gilles Dec 6 '12 at 23:04
So the idea is to make a list of the files which are already in the tarball, minus the last one which is probably incomplete. And then run a tar -rvf ? – mthpvg Dec 7 '12 at 10:42

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