While trying to restore the backup from UI it got failed Below are the logs. [2024-01-05 09:53:23] [STARTED] [2024-01-05 09:53:23] 'srujan.madderla' has started the restore! [2024-01-05 09:53:23] Marking restore as running... [2024-01-05 09:53:23] Making sure /var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2024-01-05-095323 exists... [2024-01-05 09:53:23] Copying archive to tmp directory... [2024-01-05 09:53:39] Unzipping archive, this may take a while... [2024-01-05 09:53:42] EXCEPTION: /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:138:in `exec': Failed to decompress archive. gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [2024-01-05 09:53:42] /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:172:in `execute_command' /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:138:in `exec' /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:34:in `execute_command' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_file_handler.rb:78:in `decompress_archive' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_file_handler.rb:23:in `decompress' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb:42:in `run' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:20:in `restore' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:33:in `block in ' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in `fork' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in ` ' [2024-01-05 09:53:42] Trying to rollback... [2024-01-05 09:53:42] There was no need to rollback [2024-01-05 09:53:42] Cleaning stuff up... [2024-01-05 09:53:42] Removing tmp '/var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2024-01-05-095323' directory... [2024-01-05 09:53:44] Marking restore as finished... [2024-01-05 09:53:44] Notifying 'srujan.madderla' of the end of the restore... Can someone please help on this ?

[image] Srujan Madderla : EXCEPTION: /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:138:in `exec’: Failed to decompress archive. gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data–format violated tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Either your server is out of space or the archive is corrupted. Check for available space on the target server and try taking a fresh backup to restore. You’ll need at least 3x backup size to be able to restore the backup successfully.

It should be a quick google search away however, running the below command on the server should give you the disk space df -h

Backup restore getting failed from UI

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Srujan_Madderla (Srujan Madderla ) January 5, 2024, 10:29am 3

Can you please guide me how to check the server space ?

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Backup restore getting failed from UI

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