other infos:

I use tar.

> what do your disklist entries look like?

u-szeged.hu   /home           user-tar


> I am not sure what it means that the planner got an empty schedule.

It seems to timeout, I set timeout to 9 hours, it could not finish...
As I said, I had no problem archiving /etc

> Have you looked at your debug files?   in /tmp/amanda  ?

Here's something interesting (sendsize.debug):

sendsize[409107]: time 0.047: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in 
pipeline
sendsize[409107]: argument list: /usr/local/bin/gtar --create --file 
/dev/null -
sendsize[409107]: time 33128.615: /usr/local/bin/gtar: Memory exhausted
sendsize[409107]: time 33128.659: .....
sendsize[409107]: estimate time for /home level 0: 33128.613
seMay  3 06:42:10 2003

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