Resolved Plesk Backups downloaded with .tzst file

[DanielEl]

Hello,
In the last days every backup I downloaded im receiving a big tar files with files .tzst I dont know why, but I cant open a backup in my local server its not recognize the tzst,
What should I do ?

thank you and have a good day!

 

[Maarten.]

It's the new default compression method for backups:

Change Log for Plesk Obsidian

Find out about changes, additions and updates to Plesk Obsidian on an iteration to iteration basis.

docs.plesk.com

 

[DanielEl]

Hmm and how can I use it? because I have 2 environments, and now im not possible to open the .tzst file

 

[Maarten.]

Not really sure what your local environment is, but there are tools to extract the .tzst files:

TZST File - What is a .tzst file and how do I open it?

Learn about .TZST files and view a list of programs that open them.

fileinfo.com

Otherwise, you have to make sure both environments use the same Plesk version. But again, I don't know what your local environment is.

 

[randomduckdude]

Was checking if my backups are complete on windows today as well, can't find a way to open the .tzst file, anybody knows a solution?

 

[Bitpalast]

Was checking if my backups are complete on windows today as well, can't find a way to open the .tzst file, anybody knows a solution?

??? Have you seen the previous post by maartenv?

 

[randomduckdude]

I did, my google seach took me there as well. I redirects me to this (Zstandard - Real-time data compression algorithm) which isn't helpful at all

 

[Maarten.]

This version of 7-Zip can extract the .tzst files:

Releases · mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd

7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard - mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd

github.com

 

[Maarten.]

It's also available on the command line:

How to install and use ZSTD compression tool on Linux

In this tutorial, we show the step by step instructions to install and use the Zstandard (zstd) compression tool on Linux, with command line examples.

linuxconfig.org

 

[weareimpulse]

hi, is there any way to change it back Gzip??

 

[Bitpalast]

Put this into panel.ini:

[pmm]
compressionMethod = deflate

 

[GlennT]

tzst compression sucks so far. I am trying to extract a DB backup from linux server from windows backup server and can't. I installed fileviewer plus for windows and it can't seem to connect to the internet and validate the app even though I allowed it through windows filewall which was already disabled. So that won't work.

7zip can't do anything with it either and neither can winzip eval. I need the backup and I can't get at it!

Switching back to gzip won't help as all previous backups are inaccessible!

What do I do now?

 

[GlennT]

I found a solution: Download PeaZip for Windows 64 bit, free RAR ZIP opener application

Peazip will extract a tzst archive on windows.

 

[randomduckdude]

yes, i figured peazip works but this whole tzst thing sucks.

 

[GlennT]

Once I found peazip, it made it fairly easy. It means one extra step to extract an archive but that's OK now that I know how to extract it.

 

[Rar9]

All of this is just another step to waste time. for minimal improvement

Here for extracting the .tzst command.

tar -I zstd -xvf example.tar.zst

 

[MrHawk]

In your YOURDOMAIN:8443/admin/backup/settings/

Compression level > no compression for not use tzst, will use .tar as before.



In my case, to give you an example, by not using Plesk compression, the files weigh more.

Tests I have done
500kb converts to 2.5mb
9GB in tzst becomes 10.5GB in .TAR, the files weigh a little more but in my case I prefer them to weigh more and be able to open them from windows without using other apps

 

[easyware]

Hi, I am resuming this thread just because I finally found someone that has opened this ZSTD files with success.

I have an issue with a website, the recovery from the Plesk panel was lasting 24 hours and counting so I tried to access my local FTP backups with no luck.
What am I doing wrong?

1. Recovered all the .TAR* files from my FTP server
2. Merged all the files in one .TAR (cat tar_name.tar* > single_archive.tar")
3. As I try to unpack this big .TAR with The Unarchiver on macOS I get a warning that the file is corrupted
4. "Continue" the software proceeds to unpack but all I get are two backup_user-data_2203200139.tzst (and .tzst1) - 2.15GB each (the full backup is around 40GB)

Then I read this thread and found a software that fully supports .TZST (tried peazip on macOS and 7Zip-TZST version on Windows) all I get is a "backup_user-data_2203200139", 2GB with no extension.
This is all I get inside the backup.

If I try to "TEST" the big .TAR file with Peazip this is the result I get

7-Zip (z) 21.07 (arm64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2021 Igor Pavlov : 2021-12-26
64-bit arm_v:8 locale=en_US.UTF-8 Threads:8, ASM

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 40239807912 bytes (38 GiB)

Testing archive: /Users/***/Desktop/BCK/bck.tar

ERRORS:
Headers Error


WARNINGS:
There are data after the end of archive

--
Path = /Users/***/Desktop/BCK/bck.tar
Type = tar
ERRORS:
Headers Error
WARNINGS:
There are data after the end of archive
Physical Size = 4294968320
Tail Size = 35944839592
Headers Size = 1024
Code Page = UTF-8
Characteristics = ASCII

T domains/hostname/backup_user-data_2203200139.tzst
T domains/hostname/backup_user-data_2203200139.tzst1


Archives with Errors: 1

Warnings: 1

Open Errors: 1

 

[Rar9]

plesk has post this now which is easier

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411171274770-How-to-extract-the-files-from-a-Plesk-backup-created-in-Plesk-Obsidian-18-0-40-and-later-versions

 

[easyware]

Yeah the article just tells you to download a software to handle the TZST files (or handle that through terminal on the server), I saw that, but what I can't figure out is if my .TARs are corrupted or if I am missing something..