Restoring [split] app data backups (i.e. any backup >1GB) fails with error "Input is not in the .gz format" #1400
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Feature: Backup
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Describe the bug
App Manager splits Backup archive files at 1GB boundaries and uses the filename convention
data<#>.tar.gz.<part>
Any attempt to Restore a backup (Internal Data+Cache), where the backup archive had been split, fails with an error "Input is not in the .gz format"
Note: All backup splits were verified to match the SHA-256 hashes contained in checksums.txt
Note: App Manager v4.x.x has NOT been tested (to see if the problem has been resolved)
Combining the split archive parts and updating checksums.txt allowed restore operations to succeed, without any errors; ie
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A sample restore failure:
(Int Data+Cache, approx 3.54GB, 4x data0 files)
Device info
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I am posting this on behalf of someone else who doesn't have a GitHub account.
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