Peter Mueller wrote:

>>Does anyone now why Amanda might generate an out of tape error in a
>>situation where it blatantly isn't anywhere even close to the end of the
>>tape?
>>....
> 
> As I understand it, Amanda interpretes any non-ok result from the tape 
> device as "out of tape" - as most backup and tape handling software does.

That filesystem has since backed up successfully, so I'm writing it down
to just a glitch in this case. Thanks for the above though, I hadn't
actually realised that out-of-tape was Amanda's catch-all.

Mike.