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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