Damith Coomasaru wrote:
> 
> I am new to amanda. I tried to restore but I occured following error: 
> 
> amanda:~# /usr/sbin/amrestore /dev/st0 
> 
> amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date 20011112 label HISS0
> amrestore:   1: restoring amanda.ruh.ac.lk._var_backups.20011112.0
...
> amrestore:  14: skipping start of tape: date 20011112 label HISS0
> amrestore:  15: restoring amanda.ruh.ac.lk._var_backups.20011112.0 
> 
> It is endless. Have you any idea? 

You didn't tell it what it was supposed to restore.
Here's the syntax I use as the amanda user on my tape server to do an
interactive restore of files on /home of another machine names Odin:

amrestore -p /dev/st0 Odin '/home$' | ssh odin -l root "restore -if -"
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