Cam wrote:

Hi,

On 6/22/05, Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> wrote:

There should also be a debug file named "amidxtaped.DATETIME.debug"
containing the details of the amrestore command used to extract
the data from the tape.

thanks! i checked that file and it was warning me about the tape being
rewound (i thought i had checked that...), anyway, i made sure the

I have these three settings in amanda.conf, and one side effect
of it is that the tape is always automatically rewound:

amrecover_do_fsf on
amrecover_check_label on

tape was cool and everything and tried it again today.  I get
different errors now:

[...]

tar: ./etc/postfix/canonical.db: invalid sparse archive member

Aha, next problem.  That's a symptom of gnutar 1.14 which has trouble
with restoring sparse files.  Use an older version 1.13.25 or
a newer version 1.15.1 to restore.   See:

    http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2554302


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