katello-restore shows errors "tar: Unexpected EOF in archive"

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • On attempting to restore the satellite backup with a "katello-restore", the below errors are seen:
Resetting Katello
Done.
Stopping Katello services
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  foreman-tasks.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  httpd.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  pulp_workers.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  pulp_resource_manager.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  pulp_celerybeat.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  foreman-proxy.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  tomcat.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  qdrouterd.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  qpidd.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  postgresql.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  mongod.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  postgresql.service
Done.
Restoring backend data
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: rmtlseek not stopped at a record boundary
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Done.
Restarting all Katello processes
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  postgresql.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  mongod.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  postgresql.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  qpidd.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  qdrouterd.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  tomcat.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  foreman-proxy.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  pulp_celerybeat.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  pulp_resource_manager.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  pulp_workers.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  httpd.service
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  foreman-tasks.service
Done.

Environment

  • Satellite 6.1.x
  • Satellite 6.2.x

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