I trying to import a database backup but I’m getting the below error. I have the latest version (2.5.0.beta4) and rebuild does not work. Please advise. [STARTED] 'system' has started the restore! Marking restore as running... Making sure /var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2020-05-19-193633 exists... Copying archive to tmp directory... Unzipping archive, this may take a while... EXCEPTION: "\x80\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x04\xE8\xD3\xA8\x01" is not an octal string /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/package/tar_header.rb:130:in `strict_oct' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/package/tar_header.rb:112:in `from' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/package/tar_reader.rb:61:in `each' /var/www/discourse/lib/compression/strategy.rb:18:in `block in decompress' /var/www/discourse/lib/compression/tar.rb:26:in `get_compressed_file_stream' /var/www/discourse/lib/compression/strategy.rb:15:in `decompress' /var/www/discourse/lib/compression/pipeline.rb:26:in `block in decompress' /var/www/discourse/lib/compression/pipeline.rb:24:in `each' /var/www/discourse/lib/compression/pipeline.rb:24:in `reduce' /var/www/discourse/lib/compression/pipeline.rb:24:in `decompress' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_file_handler.rb:69:in `decompress_archive' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_file_handler.rb:22:in `decompress' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb:42:in `run' script/discourse:143:in `restore' script/discourse:159:in `import' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in `start' script/discourse:284:in ` ' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:63:in `load' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:63:in `kernel_load' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:28:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:476:in `exec' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor.rb:399:in `dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:30:in `dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/base.rb:476:in `start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:24:in `start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/exe/bundle:46:in `block in ' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/friendly_errors.rb:123:in `with_friendly_errors' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/exe/bundle:34:in ` ' /usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in `load' /usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in ` ' Trying to rollback... There was no need to rollback Cleaning stuff up... Removing tmp '/var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2020-05-19-193633' directory... Unpausing sidekiq... Marking restore as finished... Notifying 'system' of the end of the restore... Finished! [FAILED] Restore done.

Thank you, the patch at least gets me past the error, but now I’m running into disk space errors. I’ll let you know if it doesn’t import after I fix the disk space errors.

Octal string exception while importing database

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) May 19, 2020, 8:39pm 2

I pushed a fix. It should be available in the test-passed branch in ~15 minutes

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0a700d81fca8d84c83428e44e6ff31f392535fc1

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Octal string exception while importing database

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