From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Using tar to extract tar files created within Amanda often gives the following errors: tar: ./filename: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers This causes problems when restoring backups from Amanda. This has been reported against Fedora Core in bug 143969 and bug 146314 but has not yet been fixed (as far as I can tell) in RHEL. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tar-1.14-8.RHEL4.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an Amanda backup. 2. Try to restore it: amrestore -p /dev/nst0 server /home | tar xvf - Actual Results: Error message: tar: ./filename: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers Expected Results: Successful restore. Additional info:
Supposedly a bug fixed in tar 1.14.91. See: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-12/msg00014.html http://www.archivum.info/debian-bugs-dist.lists.debian.org/2004-12/msg09819.html
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0336.html