Here are my findings in relation to what Chris posted:

On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Chris Nighswonger <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> After some further testing this morning and this afternoon, here is what I 
> find:
> 
> 1. I am able to unzip the files on our Amanda server using the unix 'unzip' 
> utility, but there are "random" " error:  invalid compressed data to inflate" 
> errors. These do not appear to affect all files, but that is little 
> consolation. Testing the archive with 'unzip -t foo.zip' shows that probably 
> a majority of the files are OK, but many throw the same error just mentioned.

I believe it may be related to file size. I can not even list the contents of a 
rather large (~16G) ZIP file. Unizp on my system is compiled with both large 
file and ZIP64 support.

> 
> 2. Moving the archive to a Win32 box I find that I can browse the archive 
> using the built-in Windows zip functionality. I am also able to selectively 
> extract various files and their contents seem to be completely intact as 
> expected. However, attempting a full extract of the file results in an 
> "Unexpected end of file" error.

My Windows 7 and 8 systems both hang when trying to open the file in Windows 
Explorer. It's possible it would eventually succeed but I gave up after about 
20 minutes.

> 
> 3. Attempting to use 7zip to "open as an archive" results in "Cannot open foo 
> as an archive" error. Testing the archive with 7zip results in the same error.

I have had the same experience.

> 
> It seems that there is a definite issue with ZWC. Its a bit much trouble to 
> setup a test bed and hunt through prior versions of ZWC to discover if this 
> is a regression and when it occurred, although I think it is as I have not 
> noticed this problem when restoring files in the past from Win32 backups.
> 

I'd like to add that the trial version of PKZip seemed to work fine when 
browsing or extracting individual files, but I have not tried extracting the 
entire contents of the archive.

> Maybe Paddy or someone from Zmanda can jump in here and help scare up what is 
> going on here.
> 

That would be very appreciated by me as well.

Markus

> Kind Regards,
> Chris
> 
> PS. I did find an old post regarding a similar issue[1]. However, the ZWC 
> does compression client-side, so I doubt the server hardware has much to do 
> with it unless one is unzipping on the server and it happens to have some 
> hardware problem.
> 
> [1] https://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?2139-Recovery-failed!
> 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM, flooding Controlled 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the  same issue on the "pkzip" files.  The latest version amanda 3.3.4 
> uses this as default on windows client.
> 
> So it made me difficult to unzip the pkzip files... any suggestions ?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> flooding2012
> 

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