On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:20:59PM -0600, Gordon J. Mills III enlightened us: > When trying to extract files using amanda I get the following error. I have > substituted <hostname> for the actual hostname. Any hints/ideas on what the > problem is? > > Amanda ver: 2.4.5p1 > Tape drive is 35G autoloader > > -------------------------------- > > Extracting files using tape drive changer on host > cuu-router.cuu.crownmx.com. > The following tapes are needed: TAPE03 > > amrecover> list > TAPE TAPE03 LEVEL 2 DATE 2006-03-25 > /data/IT/VirtualStats/VirtualStats.cfg > amrecover> extract > > Extracting files using tape drive changer on host <hostname> > The following tapes are needed: TAPE03 > > Restoring files into directory /root > Continue [?/Y/n]? Y > > Extracting files using tape drive changer on host <hostname> > Load tape TAPE03 now > Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y > ./data/IT/VirtualStats/VirtualStats.cfg > tar: ./var/log/lastlog: invalid sparse archive member > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2 > Continue [?/Y/n/r]? >
What version of tar are you using? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263