I tarred a directory to a different location. I then deleted the original directory.
Now I need to restore the directory, and I am unable to do so (The contents do not get restored). However, when I type tar -tvf <tarfile), the list of contents are displayed :
# tar -tvf lhs20170405.tar
rwx------ 146/20 0 Apr 5 00:01 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/
rwx------ 146/20 0 Apr 12 17:42 2013 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/
rwx------ 146/20 4326 Sep 9 19:46 2010 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_db_mtv.sh
rwx------ 146/20 3684 Sep 9 19:46 2010 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_db_wal.sh
rwx------ 146/20 27590 Feb 10 18:45 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_environment_data.sh
rwx------ 146/20 25139 Oct 26 23:21 2009 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_environment_data.sh.old
rwx------ 146/20 4081 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_perf_data.sh
rwx------ 146/20 823 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/getosver.sh
rwx------ 146/20 27091 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/global_header
rwx------ 146/20 477 Dec 5 02:02 2008 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/cron_driver.sh
rwx------ 146/20 859 Apr 2 18:31 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/longterm.sh
rwx------ 146/20 822 Oct 31 01:04 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/snapshot.sh
rw------- 146/20 49 Jan 13 01:09 2009 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/crontab
rwx------ 146/20 1503 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_scp.sh
rwx------ 146/20 4334 Sep 9 19:47 2010 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_db_mtv.old.sh
rwx------ 146/20 5662 Sep 9 19:47 2010 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_db_bes.sh
rwx------ 146/20 29668 Feb 10 18:45 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/collect_environment_data_new.sh
rw------- 146/20 121 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/crontab_15_min
rw------- 146/20 409 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/crontab_4_4_min
rwx------ 146/20 461 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/map_dsk.pl
rwx------ 146/20 24576 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/meminfo
rwx------ 146/20 795 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/reinit.sh
rwx------ 146/20 464 Feb 16 19:52 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/sadc.sh
rw------- 146/20 472 Mar 30 17:31 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/crontab_4_4_min_new
rw------- 146/20 300 Apr 3 20:23 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/adviser_disk.txt
rw------- 146/20 409 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/adviser_fs.txt
rw------- 146/20 804 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/adviser_global.txt
rw------- 146/20 1089 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/adviser_processes_all.txt
rw------- 146/20 3724 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/adviser_processes.txt
rwx------ 146/20 286 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/kill_glance.sh
rwx------ 146/20 697 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/reinit_arch_glance.sh
rwx------ 146/20 604 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/reinit_glance.sh
rwx------ 146/20 2531 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/run_glance.sh
rwx------ 146/20 3033 Mar 30 17:27 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/settings
rwx------ 146/20 72432 Apr 2 18:31 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/scripts/pss
rwx------ 146/20 0 Apr 12 17:42 2013 /home/lhs/lmon/output/
rw------- 146/20 4678316 Feb 10 18:45 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/output/L28db01_lhs.tar.gz
rwx------ 146/20 0 Apr 12 17:42 2013 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/
rwx------ 146/20 1196964 Mar 30 16:58 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/awk
rwx------ 146/20 319488 Mar 30 16:58 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/awk_32
rwx------ 146/20 1196964 Mar 30 16:58 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/gawk
rwx------ 146/20 319488 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/gawk_32
rwx------ 146/20 167936 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/gmake
rwx------ 146/20 1155072 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/gpg
rwx------ 146/20 181880 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/gzip
rwx------ 146/20 376832 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/screen
rwx------ 146/20 282624 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/tar
rwx------ 146/20 118784 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/unzip
rwx------ 146/20 475 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/sed
rwx------ 146/20 196608 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/sed_32
rwx------ 146/20 481628 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/sed_64
rwx------ 146/20 209 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/sed_script
rwx------ 146/20 413 Mar 30 16:59 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/bin/sed.sh
rwx------ 146/20 0 Apr 5 00:01 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/log/
rw-r--r-- 146/20 73216498 Apr 3 23:58 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/log/L28db01_170403.log
rw-r--r-- 146/20 66447508 Apr 5 21:12 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/log/L28db01_170405.log
rw-r--r-- 146/20 12753 Apr 4 00:00 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/log/L28db01_170404.sar
rw-r--r-- 146/20 67980522 Apr 4 23:58 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/log/L28db01_170404.log
rw-r--r-- 146/20 11933 Apr 5 00:00 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/log/L28db01_170405.sar
rw-r--r-- 146/20 68573040 Apr 5 21:12 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sadc.dat
rwx------ 146/20 0 Apr 12 17:43 2013 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/
rwx------ 146/20 592 Mar 12 21:37 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/deploy.sh
rwx------ 146/20 467 Mar 12 21:12 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps1.sh
rwx------ 146/20 382 Apr 2 16:26 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps2.sh
rwx------ 146/20 69632 Mar 9 00:15 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/schpagent
rwx------ 146/20 354 Mar 12 21:13 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/vg1.sh
rwx------ 146/20 61440 Mar 9 00:15 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/vgparse
rwx------ 146/20 0 Apr 5 00:00 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/
rw-r--r-- 146/20 39612541 Apr 2 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170402
rw-r--r-- 146/20 6117137 Mar 27 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170327.gz
rw-r--r-- 146/20 5954950 Mar 28 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170328.gz
rw-r--r-- 146/20 5908942 Mar 26 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170326.gz
rw-r--r-- 146/20 32940032 Apr 3 20:40 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170403
rw-r--r-- 146/20 30253056 Apr 4 19:20 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170404
rw-r--r-- 146/20 30261054 Apr 5 21:10 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170405
rw-r--r-- 146/20 6358554 Apr 1 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170401.gz
rw-r--r-- 146/20 5939881 Mar 25 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170325.gz
rw-r--r-- 146/20 6233255 Mar 29 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170329.gz
rw-r--r-- 146/20 6140091 Mar 30 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170330.gz
rw-r--r-- 146/20 6303808 Mar 31 23:50 2017 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/ps/20170331.gz
rw------- 146/20 153 Mar 12 21:50 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/crontab.sarcheck
rw------- 146/20 38532 Mar 23 22:08 2012 /home/lhs/lmon/sarcheck/vgparse.out
rwx------ 0/3 0 Apr 5 21:12 2017 /archive/
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What is the problem here?