[SunHELP] Tar extraction problems

[Tope Songonuga]

Hi guys

I'm trying to back up some Oracle files using the tar command below:
HOST tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0cbn /d2/oradata/SID1/system01.dbf

The script seems to run ok according to the log file which shows (for the
file above):
a /d2/oradata/SID1/system01.dbf 163848 tape blocks

When I read back the tape (tar -tf) it also looks ok.
However, when I attempt to restore the same file to a temp location using
tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0n filename, I get nothing back, just another $prompt and
the file is not extracted to the specified destination.

The same script works fine on another server (E450 running Solais 2.7), and
I can extract files ok as well, an example entry from the  log file is:
Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
u05/backup/rbs_02.dbf

Does anyone have an idea why the 'a' appears (in the log) in front of the
file name being archived, instead of the above?

HELP!!!