Do the dump are compressed on client or server? Post the amrecover and amidxtaped debug files.
As a workaround, you can do the following in amrecover before the extract: set property "command-options" "-z" Jean-Louis Dennis Benndorf wrote:
Hello, after updating yesterday to 3.3beta amrecover shows: on linuxhost dumped with tar Extracting files using tape drive changer on host dl380-54.gbv.de. Load tape D00070 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Extractor child exited with status 2 and solarishost dumped with star: Extracting files using tape drive changer on host dl380-54.gbv.de. Load tape D00059 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y Restoring files into directory /tmp All existing files in /tmp can be deleted Continue [?/Y/n]? Y /opt/csw/bin/star: Archive is 'gzip' compressed, try to use the -z option. Extractor child exited with status -1 Is there an option on client to enable decompression? Regards, Dennis