Paul Bijnens wrote:

Marc Cuypers wrote:

in runtar.*.log I find the following:

Isn't it runtar.*.debug ?

You are right. :-)

running: /bin/tar: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /
--one-file-system --listed-incremental
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/ulysses.lan.publivandyck.besda2_0.new
--sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals .

It seems to me that tar is dumping to /dev/null.

That's the estimate phase: it runs gnutar just to get
the result of --totals.

You should look in sendbackup.*.debug.

There is no sendbackup.*.debug.

diskdir "/tmp/amandadump"       # where the holding disk is
disksize 290 MB         # how much space can we use on it

#diskdir "/dumps/amanda/work" # additionaly holding disks can be specified

#diskdir "/mnt/disk4"
#disksize 1000 MB       #   they are used round-robin

What version of amanda are you using?

I'm using version 2.4.2

AFAIK "diskdir" or "disksize" are not allowed in the amanda.conf
file (or not allowed anymore; was this pre-2.4.0?)

Marc.