It's been over a month, and I'm still having problems with my AIT-2 tape drive (seems like I'm having a lot of amanda problems in general as of late).
As a recap... I could successfully run amdump & have amanda write dumps to tape. But when I tried to restore data from Amanda via "am recover", I would get the following errors: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: A lone zero block at 1639303 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2 I've made more progress & am able to center in on the problem, I just don't know how to resolve it. My problem occurs when I use compression on a backup, and have the backup written to tape. For example: Backup using Compression Fast with GNUTAR ========================================= *) Amrecover restoring data from an image in the holding disk - successful *) Amrecover restoring data from an image written to an AIT-2 tape - fails Backup using no Compression with GNUTAR ======================================= *) Amrecover restoring data from an image in the holding disk - successful *) Amrecover restoring data from an image written to an AIT-2 tape - successful My current Config: Amanda - 2.4.4.p1 Tar - 1.13.94 Gzip - 1.3.5 Any suggestions are appreciated. -Rob
