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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg
