I am trying to extract a 67gb tar and I get this error

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I am trying to extract a 67gb tar and I get this error

 
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I am trying to extract a 67gb tar and I get this error

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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Re: I am trying to extract a 67gb tar and I get this error

 
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are you using a 32 or 64bit distro? on what bittage distro was the tar created?
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