As the message says: increase READ_TIMEOUT in recover-src/extract_list.c if your tape is slow
That's the only solution, you must recompile amanda. Jean-Louis On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:28:41AM -0500, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) wrote: > No one answered my first post. So here's a brief reminder. > > -------------------------------------- > 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 (almost, but > not quite). > > 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> > ----------------------------------------- > > I can restore the files with native Unix utilities (mt, dd and tar) below is a > step by step method of how I do this, but I would like for amrecover to be > able to restore these files... Any suggestions? > > 1. mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind > 2. cd to /scratch2/ftp_root > 3. mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 > 4. dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 > 5. repeat 3 & 4 until finding the header that I would like to restore. > 6. once finding the correct header I do this: dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k | > /bin/tar -xvf - -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834