Comment 1 for bug 1725829

I did a little more digging. It appears that the sigtar for the full backup is corrupt:

# tar tzf /home/duply/duply_backups/duplicity-full-signatures.20171001T100005Z.sigtar.gz | wc -l
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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So that opens up a few questions:

1. Why is it corrupt? I don't have a crash log handy, but I could try to find it
2. How do I recover? Is it safe to just delete the local files and try again?
3. How can I help improve the system to do a better job of error recovery in this case?

thanks!