Hi,
I recently, using kbackup, backed up my system and did a clean install of
slack 11.0. When I try to restore only part of the system comes
back and I get error messages:
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
and eventually:
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Specifically, and regretably, when I do tar tvf etc I get the message, in
addition to the above:

tar: etc: Not found in archive

I guess the handwriting is on the wall here but is there anything I can
do to untar the whole backup tar file?

Thanks, jwc

john connolly wrote :

> I guess the handwriting is on the wall here but is there anything I
> can do to untar the whole backup tar file?F
>
First use the file command to check what kind of archive kbackup (WTF is
kbackup?) did create, and if its a compressed archive then it might help
if you unpack it in two steps: first decompress and then untar.

Or maybe 'cpio -H -ivd filename.tar' can help you getting the most out
of the archive.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

> back and I get error messages:
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> and eventually:
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Maybe this helps:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ad.php?t=85911

I found it with this search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Ar...-64+headers%22

If not, tar --ignore-failed-read, -G, or -g might help.

Good luck,
Daniel