Hi,

Nope - this is definately at the start of the tape as it cycles through
skipping the other disks i don't want to restore. If its *NIX it works fine
but i can restore a windows partition at all?

Tom


>
>
> 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
> >
>
>
>