Hello, I have some very large backup files that amanda pulls from Windows 2000 PCs. I use ntbackup to copy the entire 'Documents and Settings' directory on the Windows PC to a file. This file may be as large as 2 Gigabytes.
Amanda copies the files OK and amverify can read all the files successfully. However, amrecover fails when trying to restore the large files, the error message is below: timeout waiting for amrestore increase READ_TIMEOUT in recover-src/extract_list.c if your tape is slow amrecover: error reading tape: Bad file descriptor extract_list - child returned non-zero status:1 Continue? [Y/n]: amrecover> Is there a way to correct this? I use RH 7.3 and amanda 2.4.2p2 that came with the distro. Amrecover has no problem restoring the smaller files (400 - 600 MB), it's just the largest files that fail. My tape drives are Quantum DLT 4000. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Brad
