Greets,

I have to debug some backup-related problems for a customer ...

Running amanda 2.6.1 on gentoo linux there (my own ebuild).

For some DLEs I get:

   samba01.xy.at christian_home   lev 1  FAILED [FORMAT ERROR IN REQUEST
PACKET 'Error on line 1 char 202: Odd character 'r', expected an open
quote mark after the equals sign when giving value for attribute
'encoding' of element 'file'']

Corresponding lines in amdump.1 (afaik):

driver: send-cmd time 3904.615 to dumper4: PORT-DUMP 04-00020 11635
samba01.lietz.at ffffffff9ffeffffffff7f christian_home /home 1
2009:3:13:21:32:27 GNUTAR X X X BSD |"  <auth>BSD</auth>\n
<record>YES</record>\n  <index>YES</index>\n  <exclude>\n    <file
encoding=\"raw\"
raw=\"Li9jaHJpc3RpYW4vRWlnZW5lIERhdGVpZW4=\">./christian/Eigene_Dateien</file>\n
   <list>/usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/excludes/root-excludes</list>\n
</exclude>\n  <include>\n    <file>./christian</file>\n  </include>\n"
driver: state time 3904.615 free kps: 3335 space: 26304680 taper: DOWN
idle-dumpers: 3 qlen tapeq: 46 runq: 32 roomq: 0 wakeup: 0 driver-idle:
no-bandwidth
driver: interface-state time 3904.615 if default: free 3335
driver: hdisk-state time 3904.615 hdisk 0: free 26304680 dumpers 5
driver: state time 3904.629 free kps: 3335 space: 26304680 taper: DOWN
idle-dumpers: 3 qlen tapeq: 46 runq: 32 roomq: 0 wakeup: 15 driver-idle:
no-bandwidth
driver: interface-state time 3904.629 if default: free 3335
driver: hdisk-state time 3904.629 hdisk 0: free 26304680 dumpers 5
driver: result time 3904.629 from dumper4: FAILED 04-00020 "FORMAT ERROR
IN REQUEST PACKET 'Error on line 1 char 202: Odd character 'r', expected
an open quote mark after the equals sign when giving value for attribute
'encoding' of element 'file''"
driver: send-cmd time 3904.629 to chunker4: FAILED 04-00020
driver: state time 3904.629 free kps: 3335 space: 26304680 taper: DOWN
idle-dumpers: 3 qlen tapeq: 46 runq: 32 roomq: 0 wakeup: 15 driver-idle:
no-bandwidth
driver: interface-state time 3904.629 if default: free 3335
driver: hdisk-state time 3904.629 hdisk 0: free 26304680 dumpers 5
driver: result time 3904.629 from chunker4: FAILED 04-00020 "[cannot
read header: got 0 bytes instead of 32768]"

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The client here is running the zmanda-rpm
amanda-backup_server-2.6.1-1.suse10 on a Suse 10.0 (yes, old, all this
is part of migration and removal of the old client ...)

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I'd be happy to provide any more logs offlist, if needed ...

Thanks, Stefan