> Load tape DailySet1001 now
> Continue? [Y/n]: y
> EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on localhost.
> amrecover: short block 0 bytes
> UNKNOWN file
> amrecover: Can't read file header
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> Continue? [Y/n]: y
> amrecover>


  This is the same thing that is currently happening to me.  When I do an 
amrestore on the tape, it tries to read the whole tape as whatever the first 
header is on the tape.  Looking at the file, I can see the other Amanda 
headers.

  I recently did the unspeakable and began doing incrementals separate from 
my full backups.  I did this by creating a symbolic link in /var/lib/amanda 
to my full backup directory for my incrementals so that they share the same 
log files and everything.  This gets around the problem of the incrementals 
not knowing when a full backup was last done for them.  Everything claims to 
be working, but now I can't seem to get the data off of the full backup 
tapes.  Everything is there, I can see it, but amanda doesn't want to parse 
its headers correctly.  

  It seems to me that it is hosing up seeing the separator between the 
headers, but I don't see why it should suddenly be doing that.

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