On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:20:59PM -0600, Gordon J. Mills III enlightened us:
> When trying to extract files using amanda I get the following error. I have
> substituted <hostname> for the actual hostname. Any hints/ideas on what the
> problem is?
> 
> Amanda ver: 2.4.5p1
> Tape drive is 35G autoloader
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive changer on host
> cuu-router.cuu.crownmx.com.
> The following tapes are needed: TAPE03
> 
> amrecover> list
> TAPE TAPE03 LEVEL 2 DATE 2006-03-25
>         /data/IT/VirtualStats/VirtualStats.cfg
> amrecover> extract
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive changer on host <hostname>
> The following tapes are needed: TAPE03
> 
> Restoring files into directory /root
> Continue [?/Y/n]? Y
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive changer on host <hostname>
> Load tape TAPE03 now
> Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y
> ./data/IT/VirtualStats/VirtualStats.cfg
> tar: ./var/log/lastlog: invalid sparse archive member
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2
> Continue [?/Y/n/r]?
> 

What version of tar are you using?

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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