Hello!

> Anyone use amverify?  

I guess everyone in their right mind does so :-)

> When I use it amrestore complains that its not at the head of the tape so 
> filemarks maybe offset.

Excuse the really weird-seeming question, but what tape device are you
using and what is the tape block size set to? I'm running Amanda on FreeBSD 4.7
using IBM DDS-4 drive and I had the same error as long as the tape blocksize 
was set to 1k. When I set it to variable, amverify started to work correctly.
--
Toomas Aas | toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert