Hello folks !  I have been using AMANDA now for several years and find it to be a superb backup tool.  I just converted one of my AMANDA backup servers (fea5) from an Alpha 64-bit machine running Debian/Sarge to a new AMD64 64-bit machine also running Debian/Sarge.  When writing to the tape using the /usr/lib/amanda/taper component of the amanda-server package in 64-bit mode, the machine fails, and eventually hangs to the point of being unusable.  However, if I issue the same commands in the chroot 32-bit mode environment, it works fine.  Write now, I basically have to run the server in 32-bit mode and the client in 64-bit mode.  I would much prefer running the entire system cleanly in 64-bit mode.  I am including the taper error messages here for reference.  Has anyone else experienced this problem ?  If so how can it be corrected ?  I have already issued a bug report to the Debian developers, but I have not obtained a solution and

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James D. Freels, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
freelsjd AT ornl DOT gov