From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Attempting to use tar-1.14-4 to recover a file from amanda backup is reported to produce > tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar-1.15.1 is reported to fix this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tar-1.14-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Back up a file using amanda with tar 2. Recover the file. 3. Actual Results: See above. Expected Results: Successful recovery. Additional info: See the Amanda users' list thread starting at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/53108.
Tar-1.14-4 have problems with sparse files. Try tar-1.15.1-2 from devel.
I'd be glad to, but the current devel version is still 1.14-4.
tar-1.15.1-3 should have been there soon(1-2 days).
Yes, it's there now (as of 1/31), and I can confirm it works.
Can we get an errata push to FC3?