On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote:
>I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. 
> Everything is great except when I use amrecover.  Trying to restore
> an old file I will get tar errors like this:
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>tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member
>tar: Skipping to next header
>tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
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>Do I need to dump the vanilla tar (1.14.4), and compile from a
> special source version for amanda to work with tar backups?

Its been tested (tar-1.14's) and found wanting.  However, I've been 
using the latest 1.15-1 for about 3 days now with no detected 
problems.

If not that, then back up to 1.13-19 or 1.13-25, both are known good 
with amanda.

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