> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how is /mnt/usbdrive mounted? Amanda automatically runs the 
> native filesystem dump program. It will run xfsdump for 
> XFS filesystems, vxdump for Veritas filesystems, vdump for 
> AdvFS (Tru64), dump for other filesystems.
> I suspect dump cannot hanlde /mnt/usbdrive.
> Consider using gnutar instead. See 
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backup_client#Backup_programs
> 

The filesystem is ext3.  It worked with dump normally until 
I upgraded Amanda.  

Here's something I noticed: the amdump usually runs unattended 
over a weekend.  To test, I'll run manually and check the progress
throughout the day.  Before the upgrade, it would backup this
disk (about 122G) in about 4 hours (the server and client are 
directly connected via a cross-over cable, so there's no other
traffic the two have to deal with).  After the upgrade, when 
I run the manual test, it stops at 320M, and I get all the 
dump and index errors.  (why exactly at 320M?).