Nandroid Backup restore fails with error 255 I recently destroyed the screen of my OnePlus One and had to send it in for repair. I used TWRP to make a Nandroid Backup before packing the device.
Yesterday, I received a new device, obviously not having my apps and data. So I moved my backup onto the device, but when I try to restore it, I get errors.

When restoring the data partition, it will get to 79% and then say E:extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR=255. I tried it multiple times with the same result. Unfortunately, I obviously cannot try creating a new backup. All other partitions restore without trouble.

According to the log files, the file causing the issue is //data/dalvik-cache/arm/data@app@com.instabridge.android-2@base.apk@classes.dex.

What can I do? I thought it might help deleting the file as the Dalvik Cache is just a cache that will be recreated, but how do I delete files or folders from a Nandroid Backup?
I had a similar issue, turns out I did not have enough space on the phone. 

So backup_file_size * 2 &lt; memory_availaible

The data partition is mostly big so it might be exceeding the capacity. 

A good alternative might be restoring from a USB device or an SD card.