Hi and thanks for your replies.

See below for the log file contents (21.06.06).  It also shows the version
(which I used simply because Red Hat had those rpms available on their web
site - I didn't want to add the 'complexity' of having to compile the source
myself).  In my stupidity I don't see anything glaringly obvious that can be
wrong.  Amanda is configured to use gnu-tar, and there's no hardware
compression or encryption involved.

I don't see why it should still show it's busy at 9am when the backup runs
at 24:45 every morning, and only backs up about 100mb (this is just for
testing purposes using virtual tapes).  But this has happened twice now, and
I simply don't know what to do or how to fix it without rebooting the test
lab machine.

I'm very new to Linux and Amanda has been making my head hurt, so please
accept my apologies if I sound silly.

# cat amandad.20060621004501.debug
amandad: debug 1 pid 8021 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Wed Jun 21 00:45:01 2006
amandad: version 2.4.4p1
amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p1"
amandad:        BUILT_DATE="Mon Jun 20 14:39:39 EDT 2005"
amandad:        BUILT_MACH="Linux porky.build.redhat.com 2.4.21-25.ELsmp #1
SMP Fri Nov 12 21:34:51 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"
amandad:        CC="i386-redhat-linux-gcc"
amandad:        CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--host=i386-redhat-linux'
'--build=i386-redhat-linux' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
'--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin'
'--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share'
'--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' '--localstatedir=/var/lib'
'--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--enable-shared'
'--with-index-server=localhost'
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists'
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts'
'--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=disk' '--with-tmpdir=/var/log/amanda'
'--with-gnutar=/bin/tar'"
amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
amandad:        libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
amandad:        AMANDA_TMPDIR="/var/log/amanda"
amandad:        AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda"
amandad:        DEV_PREFIX="/dev/" RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/r"
amandad:        DUMP="/sbin/dump" RESTORE="/sbin/restore"
amandad:        SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
amandad:        COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
amandad:        UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
amandad:        listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
amandad:        LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
amandad:        AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
amandad:        CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
amandad:        COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
amandad:        COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
amandad: time 0.000: got packet:
--------
Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 001-D8690608 SEQ 1150847102
SECURITY USER amanda
SERVICE noop
OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
--------

amandad: time 0.000: sending ack:
----
Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 001-D8690608 SEQ 1150847102
----

amandad: time 0.005: bsd security: remote host hades.matrix-data.local user
amanda local user amanda
amandad: time 0.005: amandahosts security check passed
amandad: time 0.005: running service "noop"
amandad: time 0.005: sending REP packet:
----
Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 001-D8690608 SEQ 1150847102
OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
----

amandad: time 0.021: got packet:
----
Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 001-D8690608 SEQ 1150847102
----

amandad: time 0.024: pid 8021 finish time Wed Jun 21 00:45:01 2006
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