When importing a database dump, you may encounter many errors like “Unexpected symbol"And / or"Unexpected start of expression", Which looks something like this:
Please note that errors may vary.
These errors are the result of importing a zipped database dump, most often .tar.gz
... Such an import cannot be completed correctly, so there is no need to repeat it.
To solve the problem, unzip the archive and get a file in SQL format from it, and then import the resulting SQL file. This can be done in one of the following ways:
.tar.gz
the command to unpack into the same directory will look like this:tar -zxvf name_archive.tar.gz