FL wrote:

What does the fllowing error mean?

Something really bad, could you post the amflush.1 log file?
What's in your holding disk? ls -alR /path/to/holding/disk

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: backup <backup@knoppix>
Date: Mar 30, 2007 12:09 AM
Subject: Daily Backup AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR March 30, 2007
To: lengyel AT gmail DOT com
*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Daily-12.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
 driver: FATAL flush line 2: syntax error (bad level)


STATISTICS:
                         Total       Full      Incr.
                       --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:00
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         --

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0

Chunks Taped                  0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --


NOTES:
 driver: 1: ignoring cruft file.
 taper: Received signal 1


DUMP SUMMARY:

DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- ------------------------------------- ------------- wilf -anda/Daily NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------------- wilf /etc/udev NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------------- wilf -EGANAS/Mac NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------------- wilf -S/RECYCLER NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------------- wilf -NAS/Shared NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------------- wilf -NAS/System NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------------- wilf -S/VertasBE NO FILE TO FLUSH ---------------------------------- wilf -/local/bin NO FILE TO FLUSH ----------------------------------

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.1p1)

Thanks,
FL