On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:34:11AM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just testing recovery and I'm getting a failure in amrecover. 
> Everything is fine until I rdo the actual extract, and then (eventually) 
> I get this message from tar:
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive file:/var/local/amanda on host hydrogen.
> Load tape isotoma07 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y
> ./doug/tmp/test.txt
> tar: ./doug/tmp/test.txt: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
> 
> It doesn't recover the file.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

First thought, gnutar versions.  What version created and
what version is extracting it (maybe the same).

Use "your_guntar" --version to check.


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