Thanks, Luigi. The USB hard drive was not disconnected at all. Evolution did the backup and finished. Could the size of the file caused the problem? I don’t delete mail.
> On Aug 29, 2022, at 6:21 PM, Luigi Cantoni via evolution-list > <evolution-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > > Sorry about your problems J. > Since you were writing to a USB did you wait until all the buffers were > written? > I write to HDD then copy to a USB to put it onto another machine and the USB > looks like it has written (i.e. says done) but the buffers take minutes > longer to write out fully so Linux says its not safe to remove it when you > try and unmount it so you have to wait. > > If that happened then your file is not complete and you have a major problem. > I don't know enough about zip to know if partial recovery is possible of the > good data and the rest is just lost. > -- > Thanks > Luigi > -----Original Message----- > From: Mr. J <coml...@sonic.net> > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Restoring Evolution > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:17:45 -0700 > Mailer: Evolution 3.44.1-0ubuntu1 > >> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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