On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:20:06AM -0700, Dege, Robert C. wrote:
> 
> It's been over a month, and I'm still having problems with my AIT-2 tape 
> drive (seems like I'm having a lot of amanda problems in general as of late).
> 
> As a recap...  I could successfully run amdump & have amanda write dumps to 
> tape.  But when I tried to restore data from Amanda via "am recover", I would 
> get the following errors:
> 
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: A lone zero block at 1639303
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2
> 
> 
> I've made more progress & am able to center in on the problem, I just don't 
> know how to resolve it.  My problem occurs when I use compression on a 
> backup, and have the backup written to tape.  For example:
> 
> 
> Backup using Compression Fast with GNUTAR
> =========================================
> *) Amrecover restoring data from an image in the holding disk - successful
> *) Amrecover restoring data from an image written to an AIT-2 tape - fails
> 
> 
> Backup using no Compression with GNUTAR
> =======================================
> *) Amrecover restoring data from an image in the holding disk - successful
> *) Amrecover restoring data from an image written to an AIT-2 tape - 
> successful
> 
> 
> My current Config:
> Amanda - 2.4.4.p1     Tar - 1.13.94   Gzip - 1.3.5

gnutar jumped from 1.13.25 to 1.13.9? in one leap.
Some reported problems with these very recent versions.
I don't recall the nature of the problems, check the archives.
But a build of 1.13.25 would seem a reasonable approach to
see if that is the problem.

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