On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 at 5:23pm, Kevin Passey wrote

> I've moved on a bit here is what I've done so far:-
> 
> [Administrator@dilmom Administrator]$ /usr/local/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0
> dilmom KevDocs | /sbin/restore -iv -b 2 -f -
> Input block size is 2
> /sbin/restore: Tape is not a dump tape

There's your answer.  Backups of SMB shares don't use dump, they use 
smbclient, which in turn creates tar-like files.  You need to use 'tar x' 
to extract files from them.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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