I'm trying to restore some files and am running into errors. Some background:
The directory I am trying to restore sits on the same machine as the actual amanda backup server. Both the amanda client and amanda server are 2.4.4p3. I'm restoring the files on the same machine that did the actual backing up. I'm using tar version 1.13.25. From my research on the web, I know that there have been problems with certain version of tar, but 1.13.25 is supposed to be a good version. And since I'm using the same machine to extract as I am to compress, it seems that there shouldn't be any problems with different compression algorithms. Regardless of whether I use amrecover or amrestore, I get errors: WITH AMRECOVER: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2 WITH AMRESTORE: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error amrestore: 29: reached end of information tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors and the files are not restored. I've tried multiple backups dates and get the same error. The machine in question is running a mix of Debian stable and testing packages. The version of tar is from stable, the version of amanda is from testing. Right now, I'm stuck and cannot get these files restored. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Bryan Walton
