Hello,
Can you please run this and post the output:
-bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n rewind
-bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n fsf 1
-bash-3.00$ amdd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k count=1
Pavel

gil naveh wrote:

> Thanks
> but I tried to strip the header as well and it gave me teh same error
> message!
>
> */Matt Hyclak /* wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:07:42PM -0700, gil naveh enlightened us:
> > Thanks for all the help, but I have a problem to restore the files.
> > When I type:
> > root@ # dd if=/dev/rmt/0n ibs=64k | ufsrestore if -
> > I recieve the following error message:
> > read: Invalid argument
> > 0+0 records in
> > 0+0 records out
> > Volume is not in dump format
> >
> > But as far as I know it should be in a dump format!!! ? because
> in the
> > Amanda.conf I defined the backup as:
> >
>
> You forgot to strip off the amanda header at the beginning of the
> file.
> Usually this is
>
> dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k skip=1
>
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> Matt Hyclak
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>