Following up on myself...

Paul Bijnens wrote:

You have to recompile, using the IGNORE_SMBCLIENT_ERRORS macro defined,
which enables additional regular expression that you find in the file
client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c, like this:

   $ make distclean
   $ CGLAGS=-DIGNORE_SMBCLIENT_ERRORS ./configure --with-user=... etc.

Make that "CFLAGS" instead, with an "F":

     $ CFLAGS=-DIGNORE_SMBCLIENT_ERRORS ./configure --with-user=... etc.

   $ make
   $ su
   # make install

Note the comment in source:

  /* This will cause amanda to ignore real errors, but that may be
   * unavoidable when you're backing up system disks.  It seems to be
   * a safe thing to do if you know what you're doing.  */

This means: it could hide the fact that your most important file is
not included in the backup.

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