I am having a problem with one of our clients backups , restoring the
files generates tar errors and fails.  There are several disklist
entries using tar on this client all seem to
exhibit this problem. 

We are running Amanda 2.4.4p2 with gnu tar 1.13.25.  The server is
running solaris 9 and the client solaris 8.  I built the amanda and
tar myself from the same sources on all our machines.  There have been
no warnings during dumps that I was aware of.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Here is sample output from a restore: 

sextant:/holding2 mt rew; amrestore /dev/rmt/0hn megalon mail
amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date 20040804 label ITE-NONFULL-030
amrestore:   1: skipping compass.var.20040803.2
amrestore:   2: skipping kitty.root.20040803.4
amrestore:   3: skipping sextant.root.20040803.2
amrestore:   4: skipping compass.root.20040803.1
amrestore:   5: skipping compass.usr.20040803.1
amrestore:   6: skipping kitty.export.20040803.4
amrestore:   7: skipping chrono.root.20040803.1
amrestore:   8: skipping chrono.student-ab.20040803.1
amrestore:   9: skipping chrono.facstaff.20040803.2
amrestore:  10: skipping chrono.student-n.20040803.1
amrestore:  11: skipping chrono.student-kl.20040803.1
amrestore:  12: skipping chrono.student-ij.20040803.1
amrestore:  13: skipping chrono.usr.20040803.1
amrestore:  14: skipping chrono.student-tu.20040803.1
amrestore:  15: skipping chrono.student-cd.20040803.1
amrestore:  16: skipping chrono.student-ef.20040803.1
amrestore:  17: skipping chrono.student-vw.20040803.1
amrestore:  18: skipping chrono.student-m.20040803.1
amrestore:  19: skipping chrono.student-xyz.20040803.1
amrestore:  20: skipping chrono.student-opq.20040803.1
amrestore:  21: skipping chrono.student-gh.20040803.1
amrestore:  22: skipping chrono.var.20040803.1
amrestore:  23: skipping chrono.student-rs.20040803.1
amrestore:  24: skipping compass.opt.20040803.1
amrestore:  25: restoring megalon.mail.20040804.0
amrestore:  26: skipping megalon.student.20040804.0
amrestore:  27: skipping megalon.faculty.20040804.0
amrestore:  28: skipping megalon.graduate.20040804.0
amrestore:  29: skipping megalon.root.20040804.0
amrestore:  30: reached end of tape: date 20040804

sextant:/holding2 tar tvf megalon.mail.20040804.0
drwxrwxrwt root/mail      1903 2004-08-04 16:08:12 ./
drwxrwxr-x root/mail         1 2004-08-03 10:13:57 ./:saved/
drwxrwx--- root/mail       187 1998-10-09 15:27:33 ./TT_DB/
drw-rw---- root/mail         1 1998-07-02 11:46:02 ./lost+found/
-rw-rw---- slingya/mail    504 1998-12-03 14:19:47 ./.aarora_dt_index
-rw------- aynur/mail     8160 2004-08-04 16:08:12 ./.aynur_dt_index
-rw-rw---- adm/mail       6874 2003-04-03 08:37:05 ./adm
-rw-rw---- 4099/mail    372504 2003-08-14 14:46:40 ./cfarkas
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
-rw-rw---- jli/mail        536 2001-09-12 16:28:34 ./jli
-rw-rw---- vsriniv1/mail 61697 2000-10-23 09:47:30 ./joxan
-rw-rw---- yluo/mail     29306 2004-07-09 15:04:00 ./yluo
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
sextant:/holding2 ls -al megalon.mail.20040804.0
-rw-r-----   1 amanda   sys      5744640 Sep 22 00:07 megalon.mail.20040804.0
sextant:/holding2