tar error unrecoverable?

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:25:01 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Earlier I tried using dd with the noerror option to copy back to
> > the original disc. syslog shows:
> 
> Why are you using noerror?  If dd shows read errors then there is no
> point carrying on.  Immediately backup any important data on the disc
> and chuck it.
> 
> Colin
> 

My understanding was that the option would allow me to get whatever
files are not corrupted out of the archive.

At this point all I can do is backup a supposedly corrupted archive.
That wouldn't be much use.