WAL restore

I am having a problem in restoring from WAL files. I have restored from a dump file and trying to step through the WAL files.

LOG:  starting archive recovery

LOG:  restore_command = "cp /home/backup/%f "%p""

LOG:  restored log file "00000001.history" from archive

PANIC:  syntax error in history file: START WAL LOCATION: 2/5DC04228 (file 00000001000000020000005D)

HINT:  Expected a numeric timeline ID.

LOG:  startup process (PID 8325) was terminated by signal 6

LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

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