On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:24:28AM -0500, Jeanna Geier wrote:
> sendsize[30823]: time 0.007: running "/usr/sbin/backup 0sf 1048576 - /etc"
> sendsize[30823]: time 0.010: running /usr/local/amanda_2.5.2/libexec/killpgrp
> sendsize[30818]: time 0.010: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running
> sendsize[30823]: time 0.044: backup: Extra argument. Try backup --help for 
> more info.
> 
> Does anyone know what these messages are caused by and how
> to correct them?  Or see anything else that is causing my
> dump to error out that I'm missing??

It looks like Amanda is calling /usr/sbin/backup incorrectly.  I've
forgotten what flavor of system you're on, but if you can figure out how
'backup' *should* be called on your system, then we either need to
figure out how you can configure Amanda to call it that way, or add a
patch to Amanda to detect and correctly handle the differences.

Dustin

P.S. Thanks for chipping in and answering others' questions while you're
asking your own!

-- 
        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/