On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:37:23PM -0500, Myron Kowalski enlightened us:
> I've never had a problem restore files to solaris boxes;
> however, I'm trying to restore a linux backup, which I've
> never done. This is the message I got.
> 
> amrestore:  79: restoring aimserver._dev_hda2.20051216.0
> Volume is not in dump format
> amrestore:  80: reached end of information
> 
> I see the tape has the image I want. I usually use this
> command:
> amrestore -p (drive) aimserver /dev/hda2 | ufsrestore ivf -
> 
> Is the error telling me that linux has the compressed the
> image a different way. This is the line from disklist
> 
> aimserver       /dev/hda2    linux-tar # /usr
> 

The image was backed up using tar, and you're trying to restore with
ufsdump. That does not compute.

Try:
amrestore -p (drive) aimserver /dev/hda2 | tar xvf -

or similar.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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