Jamie Wilkinson wrote:

 > So, short of recompiling to increase READ_TIMEOUT like amrecover

suggests, is there any simple way to get the restore process to work
faster?  Is there a neat way of keeping a precomputed index of the tape
somewhere so that amrestore can seek to the right image straight away?

In amanda 2.4.3 these two parameters in amanda.conf were introduced:

  amrecover_do_fsf yes
  amrecover_check_label yes

You need both set to yes if using a vanilla 2.4.4p2 or earlier (a little
bug which was fixed a few weeks later, and is in all current snapshots).


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