Jean-Louis took a look at my config, and it turns out I had a foolish error.  I 
had used the following lines from the default config:


# flush-threshold-dumped, flush-threshold-scheduled, taperflush, and autoflush
# are used to control tape utilization. See the amanda.conf (5) manpage 
for
# details on how they work. Taping will not start until all criteria are
# satisfied. Here are some examples:
# You want to keep the most recent dumps on holding disk, for faster recovery.
# Older dumps will be rotated to tape during each run.
flush-threshold-dumped   300 # (or more)
flush-threshold-scheduled   300 # (or more)
taperflush   300
autoflush     yes


This configuration instructs the system to not write any tape volumes until the 
holding disk contains 300 *percent* of a volume size.  I had understood it to 
mean 300mb on disk.  I have no idea why I thought that.

Commenting out those lines allowed the backup to work as I had originally 
thought that it would.

I just thought that I would post this for the others that are having the same 
issue - read the manual...as they say.

Thanks for the help!

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