Data Center Expert - How to Extract Compressed Backup File

[MateFekete]

I have a full type backup file from DCE 7.8.1 which is compressed (one file with *.dce extension).

Due to migration to 7.9.0 I wanted to restore that backup but it failed after about 4 hours with following error: "Failed to extract".

Is there any way to manually extract that "dce" file extension and restore that?

[Shaun · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you rename the file from .dce to .tar.gz it should extract with many archive applications.

In order to restore from this backup, ensure that it's extracted into a folder with the same name as the .dce file had.  eg, if you have backup_hostname_timestamp_version.dce, you should have extracted backup_hostname_timestamp_version/backup.properties etc (This path isn't stored in the archive file).