> Is there actually anything in the holdingdisk?
> Does amflush show you dumps to flush?

-bash-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/amflush -f DailySet1
Scanning /backup...
  lost+found: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it.
  windows: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it.
  20040130: found Amanda directory.
  20040131: found Amanda directory.
  20031230: found Amanda directory.
  20040201: found Amanda directory.
  20040203: found Amanda directory.

Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter:
  A. 20031230
  B. 20040130
  C. 20040131
  D. 20040201
  E. 20040203
Select directories to flush [A..E]: [ALL] 

> And your report:
> 
> amflush has no need to estimate anything.
Yes not to estimate, but shouldn't it show dump statistics?

> Generally: Version of AMANDA/OS ?

Amanda: 2.4.3-4
OS: RH 9.0
Kernel: 2.4.20-20.9