I have a large number of files in a .tar.gz archive. Checking the file type with the command
file SMS.tar.gz
gives the response
gzip compressed data - deflate method , max compression
When I try to extract the archive with gunzip, after a delay I receive the message
gunzip: SMS.tar.gz: unexpected end of file
Is there any way to recover even part of the archive?
Are you sure that it is a gzip file? I would first run 'file SMS.tar.gz' to validate that.
Then I would read the The gzip Recovery Toolkit page.