Converting the backups to Binary from ASCII (4360458)

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Converting the backups to Binary from ASCII
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When backups are downloaded, the backups via FTP do not change the type to Binary, the backups are downloaded with a type of ASCII. This can cause issues because the backup will appear to be corrupt (cannot extract it) with CRC errors, and the KACE Systems Management Appliance will show an error that it is not a current version database.
Resolution
The file can be converted from ASCII to BINARY using "fixgz." It can be found here: http://www.gzip.org/#faq1

The usage of fixgz is as follows:
```
fixgz  nameofbad.tgz  nameoffixed.tgz
```
As long as the file isn't truly corrupted, this conversion will convert the backups to BINARY, which can then be recognized and restored from the KACE Systems Management Appliance.

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