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Re: [Evolution] Restoring Evolution

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 <comlbox sonic net>
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.



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