Maybe helps:

mt [-f tapedev] rewind

(this rewinds the tape). I think i got the "WARNING: not at start of tape"
error, when i used norewind tapedevice and forgot to rewind it.

Laas

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Tom Brown wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are backing up around 20 *NIX boxes each night and this runs without
> issue. On the same run i have to get a windows box onto tape using the SMB
> share method. This seems to work fine and due to network activity and the
> mail report i can see that the data from the wondows box seems to be on the
> tape.
>
> However when i try and restore the backup of the wondows box i get the
> following....
>
> ** Error detected (xxx.__xxxx_web.20030408.1)
> amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
> amrestore:   0: restoring xxx.__xxxx_web.20030408.1
> /bin/gtar: Skipping to next header
> /bin/gtar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> /bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 64+0 records in
> 64+0 records out
>
> does anyone know what this error is and how to fix it?
>
> thanks
>
> Tom
>