On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:20:06AM -0700, Dege, Robert C. wrote: > > 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
gnutar jumped from 1.13.25 to 1.13.9? in one leap. Some reported problems with these very recent versions. I don't recall the nature of the problems, check the archives. But a build of 1.13.25 would seem a reasonable approach to see if that is the problem. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
