Hello,

I have setup Amanda server ( 2.4.2-p2) on Redhat Linux 7.2 with
10 Amanda clients running on Redhat 5.1 -> 7.2.
Backups and restores with Amanda utilities work really fine.
Backups are tar compressed on client side;

 I have tried a "bare level" restoration from a boot disk using
this command:
# scp -n mybackupserver ' amrestore -p /dev/ntape 192.168.0.100 /boot' |
tar -xvf -

Amanda finds the archive on the tape and writes it to standard output.
The standard output is piped to my local tar program.
The problem is that tar extraction creates a lot of unexepected directories
like
"072315522404" or "07345503322" ... in which i can find the content of my
tar file.

I supposed that it is because the tar program on my boot disk is not a Gnu
tar.
The boot disk i use is tomrstbt and i have also tried with Redhat 7.2 rescue
disk
=> same problem.

Is it a known issue ? Any idea how i could fix it?
Have you ever tried bare level restoration on Linux with Amanda?
Should i use another boot disk and which one?

I was wondering if it was possible to use remote tar ( the one on my Amanda
server)
with scp command to extract files locally.

Thanx in advance for your answers,
Luc