On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Steve Kieu <msh.computing AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>> I don't think I've ever seen that.  Is there some simple way to reproduce
>> it?
>>
>
>
> Yes just choose archive host and select a host and archive it, choose tar gz
> as format, and type the path to the file. Then move the file to some other
> boxes probably different OS than the archived host  like in my case archived
> host is RHEL 5 and I moved to my Ubuntu desktop. Then extract it using tar
> xf command

That has always been filled for me.

> For now I have to use the restore options and download as tar archive, which
> works.

I think both approaches should do the same thing.  And the same for
running Backuppc_tarCreate from the command line.  Not sure where to
start to debug it, though.   Most oddball bugs are from having some
old/wrong perl module on the system somewhere.   Have you installed
any CPAN modules instead of .deb packaged versions?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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