I was trying to automate a verify of my backup scripts.
  (I *will* switch to Amanda soon)

  I noticed two things:
	1. restore -t doesn't actually read to the end of the
	dump. It doesn't have to, it just reads as much as it
	needs to. 
	I solved this by doing:
	dd ... | (restore -t ... && cat >/dev/null)

  I then stuck "mt asf $fileno" in my script. 

	2. Oops... mt asf 0 isn't valid. Why? I looked at the code, and 
	it seems simple to just omit the file space forward if count is 
	zero.

  I still have a problem with my tape drive: dumping a large partition
(2Gb disk with 1.2Gb used) results in a SCSI error. If I do:
	ssh localhost dump ... | dd ofs=1024k of=/dev/nrst0

  then it works!!!
  I was giving dump -b 512, btw.

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