Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Joe Konecny <jkonecny AT rmtohio DOT com> 
wrote:

I just ran amrecover and successfully put a file into /tmp.
amrecover prompted me "set owner/mode for '.'? [yn]" to
which I answered "n" and hit enter.  Now it just sits there
for over 30 minutes doing nothing.  What could be going on?

Hmm, I can only find that in the manpage, not the source.  Presumably
it's some old message which has since been removed.

Anyway, probably what it's doing is recovering your file.  Amanda
reads the whole dumpfile, even to recover a single file.

Dustin

Ok...  It finally finished.  It took over an hour.  The file was
restored early on but since you say it reads the whole dump file
I suppose it still had a way to go to finish the read.  Thanks.