Thanks Dustin and Jon.  I've given it a good clean and will see what happens 
tonight.

Unfortunately Amanda has been working so well for us (i.e. it never breaks) 
that I haven't had the opportunity to learn how to troubleshoot it...

:)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell
Sent: 16 February 2009 16:05
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Interpreting Amanda errors

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
> If size of backup is definitely not the issue, what about
> the age of the tapes.  You have been using amanda for
> several years.  Might the tapes be getting old and failing?
> Alternatively, might a tape head cleaning be due?  I.e.
> something that mechanically or electrically might be
> causing intermittant failures?

I'm sorry, Jon's absolutely right.  Apparently I didn't see the last
paragraph in the original post.

Dustin

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