Restore failure: tar: Archive base-256 value is out of time_t range

[Marcus Bointon]

I'm running percona-xtrabackup-24 2.4.8 on a fully patched Ubuntu 16.04, restoring a 9.3Gb gzipped backup taken from XtraDB 5.7.18-15. The backup process goes fine, and the restore nearly completes, but always fails at the same point:

```
mk/db.opt
mk/checksum.frm
tar: Archive base-256 value is out of time_t range
xtrabackup_slave_info
xtrabackup_binlog_info
ib_buffer_pool
backup-my.cnf
xtrabackup_info
xtrabackup_logfile
xtrabackup_checkpoints
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
```

I'm running a stock GNU tar 1.28. I have tried adding the `--warning=no-timestamp` flag I found suggested elsewhere, but that didn't help.

Any idea what's amiss?

[Marcus Bointon (marcus-synchromedia)]

Forgot to mention: listing the files produces this:

-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 125 Aug 10 22:51 xtrabackup_checkpoints
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 500 Aug 10 22:15 xtrabackup_info
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 8.0M Aug 10 22:51 xtrabackup_logfile
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 0 -8002387070795393024 xtrabackup_slave_info

I don't know that I need this file (this server is in a replicated pair), and applying innobackup to the resulting files does appear to work, but I'd prefer it if it didn't throw errors!

[Sergei Glushchenko (sergei.glushchenko)]

Hi! It is likely a duplicate of bug 1707918.