I have read the recent thread about crash recovery, and I have tried some of 
the things mentioned in the notes. I am using amanda 2.4.3b3 on a Linux box to 
backup Win2k shares to HD. The backup process works just fine, and I have not 
had a need to restore anything yet, but I figured I should give that process a 
try. I have tried amrecover recently and in the past without success. I have 
tried the commands included in the output report, dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1. 
<tape> in my case is a file on the hd. This generates a file that is not a zip 
file or a tar file. I have also tried this without the skip=1 option. amrestore 
<filename> has produced a file that I can recover from. In my setup, is there a 
down side to using amrestore, then using tar? Any ideas on why using dd is not 
working for me?

Thanks Jonathan Swaby