Gordon J. Mills III schreef:

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?
./data/IT/VirtualStats/VirtualStats.cfg
tar: ./var/log/lastlog: invalid sparse archive member

Probably a bug in tar 1.14.X (or even may be 1.15?)
Using tar 1.15.1 works fine to extract the file.
(or tar 1.14.X with backported bugfixes, as RH provides).



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