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 -

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