>I was more than a little dismayed today to find that all of the backups I 
>have been doing are not recoverable.  ...

Yeah, that kind of thing can really put an end to a perfectly good day.

>I can move around the backups on tape using mt and the amanda headers look 
>fine, but if I try to recover anything I get a decompression error shortly 
>into the file.  ...

Could you post some examples of what you tried and the results?

Did you try amrestore?  For instance, "amrestore $TAPE <host> <disk>"
should have created a dump image in your current directory, including
uncompressing it.

>Glen and Rosanne Eustace,

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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