[cobalt-users] HELP: Restoring '*.qub' files

[Christopher Ringe <grbear@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I've been plagued with trying to selectively restore files from an old
backup.  The problem in doing so is that I've yet to successfully untar a
'.qub' file.

According to the knowledgebase, the .qub files are simply gzipped tarballs,
and as such should be pretty trivial to restore, yet 'tar' commands I
normally use for such files don't work.

I'm under the assumption that one of the following commands should work to
view the files contained in the tarball, yet do not.

tar -vtz --file=whatever.qub | more (reports not a gzip file as either)
tar -vt --file=whatever.qub | more (reports headers errors)

I've tried as .qub and renamed to .tar.gz

Could someone please advise on the correct command to restore the .qub
backupfile.

Thanks!