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