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> 
> That looks like amrestore isn't finding the dump file on the tape and is
> running off the end of tape.
> 
> I'm puzzled by the "missing file header block".   That implies that the
> tape isn't positioned at the start of a tape file when you run amrestore.
> What does "mt stat" say before you run amrestore?  Is the tape positioned
> at the very start of the tape file you want (or at least somewhere before
> there)?

"mt start" gives an error.  "start" doesn't seem to be a valid command for
me implementation of mt.  "mt rewind", however, was used before the
attempted restore.  I'm quite sure the tape was successfully rewound
beforehand.
> 
> Is that all the output you get from amrestore?  Does it really skip from
> 2: to 10:?

Unfortunately, yes, that was the entire output from amrestore.

> 
> Paul
> 

Thanks.  Any other ideas on how to proceed/troubleshoot?

--Sean Noonan