tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
after extracting most, but not all, files - if the amanda index is anything to go by. There is a significant delay between the two first and last error messages, which leads me to believe that there is more data, but tar just doesn't understand it. I get the same behaviour if I extract files using amrecover instead of amrestore + tar. Also, I actually have two dumps of the filesystem in question: One on tape and one on harddisk (well, I have more than one tape, too, but the others are stored elsewhere.) Both fail in the manner described above, but at different points. Also notice the following behaviour when unpacking the harddisk dump in a more direct manner:
# dd if=/dumps/mirror/d4/data/00013.fileserv._scanner2_Hoyde.6 bs=32k skip=1 | tar -xvpzkf -
[ file extract info skipped ]
tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers 37800+0 records in 37800+0 records out
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
All this with amanda 2.4.4p1 with server on Linux and clients on SGI IRIX as well as Linux; I've tried unpacking on both platforms.
HELP!!!!
- Toralf