Yep, I am set on variable block size.  I noticed that amverify doesn't 
complain when the backups took up one tape but if it took up more than 
that it'd complain about file offsets.

The tape device is a vxa2 drive with block size set to variable.

robin



On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Toomas Aas wrote:

> 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.
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