Just had my first bad experience with gnutar 1.14.
It seems there is a bug when restoring archives with sparse files.
When restoring with gnutar 1.14, you cannot restore a sparse file and ALL OTHER FILES AFTER THAT MEMBER.
From my extraction:
Load tape DAILY-18 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y tar: ./XXX/XXX.mdb: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
The archive itself is fine, because restoring with good old tar 1.13.25 did work fine.
There is already a patched version 1.14.91 from alpha.gnu.org: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-12/msg00014.html .
Downgrading to 1.13.25 works too (at least in my case).
A warned man...
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