Backup file is .tar but pi-hole needs tar.gz

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Teleporter (Backup/Restore) Behavior vs OS or Browser

On a MAC running SAFARI Pi-Hole Teleporter saves a .tar file. On a WINDOWS 11 machine using EDGE, Teleporter saves a .tar.gz file. Teleporter RESTORE only looks for (enables) download of .tgz, .gz files. Solution: MACOS has a command line gzip program. In the Pi-Hole web interface (using SAFARI), create a Teleporter backup. it will be saved in your ~/Downloads directory. Open Terminal (it typically opens in ~ (your home directory) use cd ~/Downloads to change to the directory that contains…