tar that Amanda was configured with. I suspect that you may have two different versions of tar on the box and Amanda is using a broken one.
Bingo - you and Jon L. both pinned this one down. Knowing there were multiple versions of tar on this machine I tried to be smart by specifying the --with-gnutar flag. Of course, I pointed it at one of the wrong versions (1.13 instead of 1.13.25). :-/
> If I were to take the index file, make a copy, strip the numbers and /./ out of the copy, and put it in place, would that work? (Writing some perl to find out, so this is somewhat of a rhetorical question. :-)
I don't think that works (or at least it didn't when I tried it a
Actually it did! I was able to grab my file last night after processing the index files with a little command-line perl regexp. :-)
Of course, during last night's backup, the kernel/SCSI module had an issue and now I can't get the tape device back online. It's always something! Thanks for your help on this issue.
-Fran
