Dump and Restore don't seem to agree about the correct format of a dump tape. alien9 /mnt/hdc1 # dump 0f - / | restore rf - DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon May 24 00:18:04 1999 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/) to standard output DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 604266 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] Tape is not a dump tape DUMP: Broken pipe DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
Fixed in dump-0.4b4-9. This problem is/was a compiler problem.