David Gitman wrote:

I'm receiving a "restore: Tape is not a dump tape" message when trying to
restore a amrestore file via restore. I'm running the amrestore or restore
command incorrectly?

$ amrestore /dev/rst0 host1

amrestore:   1: restoring host1._.20060116.1
amrestore:   3: restoring host1._.20060116.1
amrestore:   5: restoring host1._.20060116.1
amrestore:   7: restoring host1._.20060116.1
amrestore:   9: restoring host1._.20060116.1
.....
amrestore: 10501: restoring host1._.20060116.1
amrestore: 10503: skipping host2._.20060116.1
amrestore: 10504: reached end of tape: date 20060116

Was that tape created with the tape-spanning features of 2.5.0beta
with a ridiculously small tapesplit_size (or the default
fallback_splitsize of 10 Mbyte and you bypassing the holdingdisk)?

In that case you should use "amfetchdump" instead of amrestore.
(Actually, I haven't even tried that utility yet.  I tried recovering
a tape-chunked image with amrecover and that worked perfect.)

See: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amfetchdump


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