Am 2011-05-17 23:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

> Thanks, Jean-Louis, will do that tomorrow and report back!

ah, never mind, I tried it already ;-)

> file bb
bb: data

> tar -tvf bb
tar: Das sieht nicht wie ein „tar“-Archiv aus.
tar: Springe zum nächsten Kopfteil.
tar: Archiv enthält veraltete Base64-Kopfteile

Yep, german, it seems to be:

Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

....

> gzip -d  < bb > cc

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

> tar -tvzf bb

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1

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The file was restored via amrestore (not amrecover), with amanda 3.1.3
(and it was dumped to tape with the same release before).

I would upgrade to test again, but right now the daily amdump runs.

Thanks, greets, Stefan

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