> As an update to my problem, I looked at the file that it is restoring, and
> it does in fact contain all of the backups from the tape, right down to the
> amanda headers.  Why would it not be recognizing the end of the tar archive
> and process the next header?

  As a further update, doing an amrestore where the name of the host is 
invalid, eg "amrestore /dev/nst0 frodo" results in:

amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date 20020511 label full14
amrestore:   1: skipping snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._export_home__local.20020511.0
amrestore:   2: skipping snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._var.20020511.0
amrestore:   3: skipping snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._tmp.20020511.0
amrestore:   4: skipping snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._usr_src.20020511.0
amrestore:   5: skipping snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._.20020511.0
amrestore:   6: skipping snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._usr_local.20020511.0
amrestore:   7: skipping snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._export_ext__raid.20020511.0
amrestore:   8: reached end of tape: date 20020511

  So, it is capable of seeing every tar file on the tape.  But why oh why 
does it restore them all to 
"snoopy.mcs.drexel.edu._export_home__local.20020511.0"?

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