First thought, gnutar versions. What version created and what version is extracting it (maybe the same).
Use "your_guntar" --version to check.
The backup was only made a week ago and it's all on the same box, so I doubt it's version skew. I've got:
tar (GNU tar) 1.14
Anyhow.
Cheers,
Doug.
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