For emergency testing I want to read the amanda files with standard Unix/Linux tools
W Curtiss preson's book suggests that amanda tapes can be read with the command dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 Attempting to move it to the next file with mt /dev/nst0 fsf 1 dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 persistingly returned the amanda header, nothinbg else This returns indeed the Amanda header but not the backup software used (tar in my case) Forcing a listing with dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=x | tar -t - returned either not output or the message "not a tar file" How can access the tape content. I use amanda 2.4.5 in linux (RH7.3) Gerrit Hommersom