How can I recover files from a corrupted .tar.gz archive?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.