gil naveh wrote:

Thanks

but I tried to strip the header as well and it gave me teh same error message!

If it's compressed, it need to be uncompressed first. Do something like:


dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k skip=1 |gzip -dc | ufsrestore if -

*/Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>/* 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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