On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 16:41 -0700, Mr. J wrote: > Friends: I have been trying to restore yesterday's Evolution backup > and get the message: > > File “/home/ij/Downloads/evolution-backup-20220828.tar.gz” is not a > valid Evolution backup file. > > I created the backup file yesterday with Evolution's backup > function, and I'm running the restore command from Evolution, but > it's a restored version from a 2020xxxx.tar.gz file. (I mistakenly > thought restoring the data from that 2020 file would simply add to > the existing Evolution system; instead I replaced all my current > data with that from the 2020 file.) > > I'm running Evolution 3.44.1-Oubuntu1 in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, on a > generic Intel Pentium CPU G4400. When I created yesterday's > backup, I put it in (backed it up to) an external USB hard drive. > Thinking that might be the problem, I copied and pasted it to the > local /home/ij.... folder. > > Please help!!! > IJ > I just tried extracting the data from the file and got the error message that an extraction error occurred: "truncated gzip input". So it looks like the file got corrupted somehow, but it was created by Evolution, and there was no indication of the issue when creating it.
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