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 The version of restore that I have under CentOS 6 does not have any compression options except for -l. Only dump has the compression options and restore is supposed to recognize the compression I believe. The z option definitely does not work. Maybe the file is bad. I am going to look to see if I can find any other backups of that system. Thank You, Nataraj