Thanks for the advice, I did put the wrong command in the last e-mail, I used typed amrestore, rather than amrecover.
After looking through the man pages for amrestore and a bit of messing around, I have managed to get it to restore correctly (as you said :))
The only thing I'm not sure on is the -f option to amrestore The man page states: -f Do a rewind followed by a fsf <fileno> ... restore an image. I cannot work out what this represents (I'm sure it's obvious :)) I stabbed at it and just entered 1 and it seems to work ok. # cd /tmp/restore # amrestore -p -f 1 file:/path/to/tape/tape01 | tar -xpGvf - . Thanks for the help Mark
