Here's my setup:
        debian stable box with amanda 2.4.2
        tar 1.13.25
        A DLT4k tape drive


So i had a catastrophic system disk failure, the data was on an LV which was
made up of a PV on the system disk and a PV on an entirely seperate disk.
Basically i'm considering the LV and it's data gone, and am resorting to the
tapes. 

When I run 
# amrestore -p /dev/nst0 samba2 vg0/lv0 | tar -xv

I get:

amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date 20020704 label Daily-05
amrestore:   1: skipping samba2.hda3.20020704.0
amrestore:   2: skipping homer.hda1.20020704.0
amrestore:   3: restoring samba2.vg0_lv0.20020704.1
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
root@homer:/home/scratch/restore# ls

Any ideas? I'm looking into getting the one PV brought back to life so I can
use debugfs to snag what data I can off of it. 


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