A simplified version of my config:

amanda.conf:

# maxdumps 1            # amount of parallelism per client
#                       maxdumps is not set in the general section

define dumptype data {
        program "GNUTAR"
        index yes
        compress fast
        strategy noinc
        record no
}

define dumptype data-host1 {
        data
        maxdumps 3
}


disklist:

host1   /dir1...        data-host1
# many more dirs like this

host1   /dira...        data
# many more dirs like this




Now even when all dirs with the "data" dumptype are done amanda does
not run more than one dump on host1.

Is having different maxdumps values for the same host allowed?

Can maxdumps in a dumptype be larger than the global setting?

Or do you suspect some completely different cause ...?

        Sven