Amanda tape error

Hi,

I'm using Amanda 2.4.3. I scheduled Amanda to backup every weeknight, it was working fine but from the last three days, it is not able to backup. It also started behaving funnily. I identified four problems with Amanda, don't know how come suddenly Amanda started working strangely.
My problems with Amanda are:
1.
The scheduled Amanda backup program is giving errors, pasted below.

*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! The dumps were flushed to tape Set-1-03. The next tape Amanda expects to use is:Set-1-04.STATISTICS:                           Total       Full      Daily                         --------   --------   -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00 Run Time (hrs:min)         0:00 Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00 Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0 Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         -- Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00 Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0 Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0 Filesystems Taped             0          0          0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --

This has been the story for the last three days.

2.
I ran amflush to write data in holding disk to the tape. Here I ran ' ps-auxwww | grep "amanda" ' command. Result is:

-bash-2.05b$ ps -auxwww | grep "amanda"
root      3770 0.0 0.0 4096    4 pts/0    S    Feb02   0:00 su -l amanda
amanda    3771 0.0 0.0 4384    0 pts/0    SW   Feb02   0:00 -bash
amanda    5306 98.7 0.0 2128 140 ?        R    11:13 61:08 ./amflush DailySet1
amanda    5307 0.0 0.0 2128   12 ?        S    11:13   0:00 driver DailySet1
nodump
amanda    5308 0.0 0.0 2780    4 ?        S    11:13   0:00 taper DailySet1
amanda    5309 0.0 0.0 2804    4 ?        S    11:13   0:00 taper DailySet1
amanda    6881 0.0 0.7 6796 2000 ?        S    12:14   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
amanda    6882 0.0 0.5 4396 1492 pts/4    S    12:14   0:00 -bash
amanda    6940 0.0 0.3 2748 800 pts/4    R    12:15   0:00 ps -auxwww
amanda    6941 0.0 0.2 3576 644 pts/4    S    12:15   0:00 grep amanda

Above result says amflush is running but the green light on the HP sure store dat 24 taper which blinks when read/write operation is done is glowing, not blinking. This means no writing activity is going on.

3.
I tried amcleanup to stop flushing, It's result is

-bash-2.05b$ ./amcleanup DailySet1
amcleanup: processing outstanding log file.

Here I ran ' ps -auxwww | grep "amanda" ' command again to check whether amcleanup command's result. It gave

-bash-2.05b$ ps -auxwww | grep "amanda"
root      3770 0.0 0.0 4096    4 pts/0    S    Feb02   0:00 su -l amanda
amanda    3771 0.0 0.0 4384    0 pts/0    SW   Feb02   0:00 -bash
amanda    5306 98.7 0.0 2128 140 ?        R    11:13 61:08 ./amflush DailySet1
amanda    5307 0.0 0.0 2128   12 ?        S    11:13   0:00 driver DailySet1
nodump
amanda    5308 0.0 0.0 2780    4 ?        S    11:13   0:00 taper DailySet1
amanda    5309 0.0 0.0 2804    4 ?        S    11:13   0:00 taper DailySet1
amanda    6881 0.0 0.7 6796 2000 ?        S    12:14   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
amanda    6882 0.0 0.5 4396 1492 pts/4    S    12:14   0:00 -bash
amanda    6940 0.0 0.3 2748 800 pts/4    R    12:15   0:00 ps -auxwww
amanda    6941 0.0 0.2 3576 644 pts/4    S    12:15   0:00 grep amanda

This means the amflush operation is not been stopped by amcleanup. I killed the amflush operation manually.

4.
Here I ran the amcheck command it is giving error saying

-bash-2.05b$ ./amcheck DailySet1
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /backup: 851940 KB disk space available, using 851940 KB
WARNING: skipping tape test because amdump or amflush seem to be running
WARNING: if they are not, you must run amcleanup
Server check took 3.344 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 4 hosts checked in 3.966 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3)

I did kill the amflush command because ps -auxwww | grep "amanda" gave

-bash-2.05b$ ps -auxwww | grep "amanda"
amanda    9129 0.0 0.1 6796 464 ?        S    13:10   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
amanda    9130 0.0 0.3 4400 880 pts/2    S    13:10   0:00 -bash
amanda   14517 0.0 0.3 2740 788 pts/2    R    15:30   0:00 ps -auxwww
amanda   14518 0.0 0.2 3576 640 pts/2    S    15:30   0:00 grep amanda

I don't understand why amcheck is saying amdump or amflush is running when no process related to amanda is running

Can anybody suggest me what to do?

Regards,
Aditya