I'm trying to restore some files and am running into errors.  Some
background:

The directory I am trying to restore sits on the same machine as the
actual amanda backup server.  Both the amanda client and amanda server
are 2.4.4p3. I'm restoring the files on the same machine that did the actual
backing up.  I'm using tar version 1.13.25.  From my research on the web,
I know that there have been problems with certain version of tar, but 1.13.25
is supposed to be a good version.  And since I'm using the same machine
to extract as I am to compress, it seems that there shouldn't be any
problems with different compression algorithms. Regardless of whether I use
amrecover or amrestore, I get errors:


WITH AMRECOVER:

tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2

WITH AMRESTORE:

tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
amrestore:  29: reached end of information
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


and the files are not restored.  I've tried multiple backups dates and get
the same error.  The machine in question is running a mix of Debian
stable and testing packages.  The version of tar is from stable, the
version of amanda is from testing.  Right now, I'm stuck and cannot
get these files restored.  Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Bryan Walton