This archive was a backup :/ I was trying to restore the original after making some bad changes.
The actual actual lesson I should have learned is wait for the full archive backup to extract successfully before deleting the original and declaring the restoration done.
Still I will always have a (maybe irrational) fear of tar.gz now.
I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t know much about how either works. I got my info from this answer
This seems to be correct.
But a downside of this is that zip archives will be larger, possibly much larger, since there is no compression across files.
The actual lesson you should have learned was to use backups. If data isn’t backed up then you might as well pretend you don’t have it.
This archive was a backup :/ I was trying to restore the original after making some bad changes.
The actual actual lesson I should have learned is wait for the full archive backup to extract successfully before deleting the original and declaring the restoration done.
Still I will always have a (maybe irrational) fear of tar.gz now.