Gil,

You wheren't by any chance using SW compression ?

You may have said earlier but I missed it if you did, if so
you will need to lengthen the pipe a little bit...

# dd | gunzip | ufsrestore



On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:20:25PM -0700, Pavel Pragin wrote:
> Hello,
> Can you please run this and post the output:
> -bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n rewind
> -bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n fsf 1
> -bash-3.00$ amdd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k count=1
> Pavel
> 
> gil naveh wrote:
> 
> >Thanks
> >but I tried to strip the header as well and it gave me teh same error 
> >message!
> >
> >*/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
> >
> >    -- 
> >    Matt Hyclak
> >    Department of Mathematics
> >    Department of Social Work
> >    Ohio University
> >    (740) 593-1263
> >
> >
> 
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