On 11/3/18 9:35 AM, Nataraj wrote: > On 11/3/18 3:26 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: >>> restore tvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Verify tape and initialize maps >>> Input is from a local file/pipe >>> Checksum error 20311110402, inode 0 file (null) >>> restore: Tape is not a dump tape >> what does 'file' think the file is - i.e. what does >> >> file u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump > > u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump: data > > Which I did think was odd. I had also tried > > bzcat u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump > bzcat: u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump is not a bzip2 file. > > but I didn't remember if dump might have it's own headers before the > compressed data. > > >> The dump is compressed. What was the command line you used to create >> the dump file? >> >> Have you tried using >> >> restore tzvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Problem solved. Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions. Turns out that I had encrypted the backup with a GPG key, but didn't put that info into the filename. Backup reads just fine when I pipe it through gpg and then to restore. Nataraj