Sounds like data corruption. I would try to rebuild the config with an '/export compact file=' followed by a '/system reset-configuration no-defaults=yes' and then an '/import' of the export you made.
Alternatively, it looks like you have some older backups with normal file sizes on there that you managed to make pre-corruption. You might think about restoring the most recent one those, and then patching up the config to match whatever changes you made since that backup was taken.