Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>:

> 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:
> >
> >tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member
> >tar: Skipping to next header
> >tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> >
> >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.

Roll back to that RPM version build for Fedora, or abandon the RPM and go with
source?

>
> >--
> >Matt Lung
> >Midwest Tool & Die, Corp.
> >
> >
> >


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