I have recently upgraded the OS on my Laptop. To do so, I backed up the entire hard drive to a tarball on the network. I used something like this:

Everything seems to have went well, and it was done the next morning. I tested extracting the archive, but only the first few files. So I proceeded formatting the hdd and installed Windows 7.

When I try to extract this archive, it gets stuck at approximately 12GB. I tried extracting with WinRAR, Universal Extractor, 7z, gzip followed by tar, and tar -z.

Is there something that I am/was doing wrong?
Is there some way to also extract the data AFTER the bad part? (The data before 12GB is unfortunately only the recycle bin and a 9gb iso, which I intended to delete anyway.)

Kind regards
fmr

Is this any help?

Indeed, thank you. It recovered some files, but not unfortunately not much.

I managed to get the most of my files (without directory structure ) back by running "Active File Recovery" on the drive.

PS: For future reference, one needs to use to extract a directory tree.