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restorepkg error - /bin/gtar: This does not look like a tar archive

Discussion in 'Migrate to cPanel' started by ruyrocha, Aug 5, 2015.

  1. ruyrocha

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    Hi guys,

    For security purposes we check some backup files daily. Basically we restore, check for issues and package the account again. Got the following on restore phase:

    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: Progress: 24%
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: Homedir
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: Restoring Homedir…
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: Invalid log entry: [/bin/gtar failed creation!
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: ]
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: Invalid log entry: [/bin/gtar: This does not look like a tar archive
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: ]
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: Invalid log entry: [/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: ]
    [ 5489][RESTORE:1 ][A:account1 ]: Unable to copy home directory for user: account1

    The full backup size went down to 2MB from 143MB, so this is a big problem as it looks like we're missing entire home folders.

    Do you have any thoughts on this?
     
    #1 ruyrocha, Aug 5, 2015
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    Hello,

    Are you getting error while creating this account backup ? I think your backup file corrupted and due to that you are getting this issues.
     
    #2 24x7server, Aug 6, 2015
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    Hey sir, looks like no errors when creating the backups for this specific server. We restore and package the account on another one, and after that I saw backup file size reducing a lot to something around 2MB.
     
    #3 ruyrocha, Aug 6, 2015
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    Hello :)

    Could you try manually backing up that account through the "/scripts/pkgacct $username" command? Does it generate a valid archive successfully with this method?

    Thank you.
     
    #4 cPanelMichael, Aug 10, 2015
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