[Cialug] Tar file corruption

[David Bierce]

I have a tar file that was bzip2 compressed and had a few blocks to bad in media transfer, After pulling out the bad blocks, the reconstituted tar file appears to only function until the place in the file where the first block was corrupted.  After the first block it just doesn't read the rest of the data.  I've tried to read the file ignoring zero data, which just pulls a bunch of junk metadata and file names after the empty block.  I've tried to extract it using CPIO, which has the same problem after the empty block.

Does anyone know of a tool that can repair tar files, or at least, try.  Or it is time time to go digging deep into the file or give up :)