I have a new installation on Fedora Core 5, amanda 2.4.5p1-3.2. The
server can back itself up, and I can access the backups. The storage
device is an external hard drive.

I have just added a client to the setup. For its backups, I get:

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FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  themoose.localdomain  /etc              lev 0  FAILED 20060621 [too many 
dumper retry]
  themoose.localdomain  /home             lev 0  FAILED 20060621 [too many 
dumper retry]
  themoose.localdomain  /var              lev 0  FAILED 20060621 [too many 
dumper retry]
--------------------------------------------------

Looking at the log files, I see a typical runtar log as follows:

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runtar: debug 1 pid 6507 ruid 33 euid 0: start at Wed Jun 21 08:24:02 2006
/bin/tar: version 2.4.5p1
running: /bin/tar: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /var 
--one-file-system --listed-incremental 
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/themoose.localdomain_var_0.new --sparse 
--ignore-failed-read --totals . 
runtar: pid 6507 finish time Wed Jun 21 08:24:02 2006
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I notice that the file is /dev/null. Is that correct?

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