Daily Archives: August 1, 2011

Error Uncompressing tar.gz file tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

For transferring one website from one server to another, I had to take the backup. usually this is not a big issue, but this time this machine was 64 bit Spark machine and the new server was a 32 bit GNU machine. While uncompressing, I got the following error: root@server # tar -xvf file.tar.gz tar:…