Rescuing most from a broken tar.bz2 with bzip2recover and some cunning.

I had a bzip2ed tarball from 2005 lying around, for which BZip2 threw a CRC error. libv@machine:~$ tar -jxvf ../backup-2005.tar.bz2 backup/ backup/file0.txt backup/file1.pdf backup/file2.bin bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing. Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of…