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    What command did you use to create the zip file? Commented Oct 27, 2022 at 5:27
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    What does unzip -l backup.zip say? Commented Oct 27, 2022 at 6:45
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    The -I option is invalid on my Linux. What is your distro, and what does the man page say it does? Mine has a -i option which "emits mime-strings rather than human-readable ones". I suspect your file is a .zip, but you suppressed that information. If the contents of your folder were already compressed (e.g. images) then zip will not achieve significant reductions, so 50GB would be understandable. Commented Oct 27, 2022 at 8:22
  • @StephenKitt i get the following : Archive: backup.zip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note: backup.zip may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of backup.zip or backup.zip.zip, and cannot find backup.zip.ZIP, period. Commented Oct 27, 2022 at 16:47
  • @RomeoNinov on windows -> right click on the folder -> add to archive Commented Oct 27, 2022 at 16:49