Michael D. Schleif wrote:
...

|   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
? /dev/sda1: EXT2 directory corrupted while converting directory #195556
?
|   DUMP: Broken pipe


I do not find anything of this sort in the amanda archives.

Well, I do...

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/44279
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/42244

A filesystem check helps too sometimes.

Dump for ext2 always had a bad reputation. There was no maintainer
for dump for some time.  Are you sure you have the latest version
from http://dump.sourceforge.net/ . It is supposed to work better.

I left dump a long time ago, and use tar now (I have a mixed
Solaris / Linux / MS environment - gnutar makes interoperability of
restores easy).