That should read "Now I've got a successful backup of the IRIX box, 
but when I try to restore on the Linux host,..."

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>
>I'm testing out backing  up an Irix machine with a Linux box. I've 
>already successfully run and restored backups on the Linux box. Now 
>I've got a successful backup of the linux box, but when I try to 
>restore using the following, I get this error:
>
>amrestore -p /dev/nst0 olympus /dev/dsk/dks3d11s3 | /sbin/restore -ivf -
>
>Verify tape and initialize maps
>Input is from file/pipe
>amrestore:     0: skipping start of tape: date 20020305 label olympus00
>amrestore:     1: restoring olympus._dev_dsk_dks3d11s3.20020305.0
>/sbin/restore: Error reading dump file header
>
>This happens for every partition I try to restore.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jenn Sturm
>
>
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>|Jennifer Sturm                                         |
>|System Administrator and Research Support Specialist   |
>|Chemistry Department                                   |
>|Hamilton College                                       |
>|                                                       |
>|[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    |
>|315-859-4745                                           |
>|www.chem.hamilton.edu                                  |
>.-------------------------------------------------------.
>|"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side,     |
>| and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." |
>|                                       -Carl Zwanzig   |
>|                                                       |
>|                                                       |
>|"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things|
>| go, and duct tape to make them stop. "                |
>|                                       -G. Weilacher   |
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|Jennifer Sturm                                         |
|System Administrator and Research Support Specialist   |
|Chemistry Department                                   |
|Hamilton College                                       |
|                                                       |
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    |
|315-859-4745                                           |
|www.chem.hamilton.edu                                  |
.-------------------------------------------------------.
|"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side,     |
| and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." |
|                                       -Carl Zwanzig   |
|                                                       |
|                                                       |
|"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things|
| go, and duct tape to make them stop. "                |
|                                       -G. Weilacher   |
.-------------------------------------------------------.

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