Your SD card or chat history is corrupted.You aren't using the same phone number that was used to create the backup. You aren't logged into the same Google account.WhatsApp will ask you to restore your chats and media from a backup once you verify your number. If your backup was made when you had a different phone number than the one you currently have, you will not be able to restore it. WhatsApp is now in /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases - that you can check for yourself after installing it on a new phone (install first - not run yet, then copy files from old phone over to new one in that new folder, then start WhatsApp on new phone). Looks in my case the issue might have been with Linux-Android USB link. I copied all "whatsapp" previous phone folder to some folder on the "new" phone via laptop and copied from there to "whatsapp" folder via internal android file manager app. But then I noted "Whatsapp" folder as seen by android file manager contains only "Media" folder, whereas to my Linux mounted drive I copied all folders, which gave me a clue. I've tried giving permissions before Whatsapp starting as advised in other answer, but to no success, restarted my phone - again no success. Disclaimer: this solution is offered to those who as myself found this post via googling for "whatsapp not restoring local backup", I have not changed my number.
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