This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>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).

Does the client need to be >= 2.4.3 also?

I have a client running Red Hat 8.0 (amanda-client 2.4.2p2-9) and a
server with RHEL-3ES (amanda-server 2.4.4p1-0.3E) and those two settings
above didn't stop the timeout.

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