On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 at 11:39pm, David Newman wrote

> An amanda server on Box A backs up partitions from amanda clients on Box A 
> and Box B. The dumptype is gnutar for both boxes. Backups on Box B work 
> fine. Backups on Box A fail with an "all estimate failed" error.
> 
> Both boxes run GNU tar 1.13.25. The disklist calls both boxes' partitions 
> the same way. And amanda did back up Box A's partition when I used dump 
> as the dumptype. (I'm only trying tar to see if there's a speed increase.)
> 
> Where should I be looking to determine why this is failing?

/tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug and /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug on Box A, as well 
as the relevant amdump.N file(s).

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University