Myron Kowalski wrote:

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

You use tar for backup --------------^^^

and try to restore via restore which belongs to dump ...

You have to use tar for extracting that image:

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

Greets, Stefan.