Hi Ben,
I've noticed a similar problem on my system. I think I may have traced the problem to a bug in the 'exclude' lists for amanda (2.4.3b3) dumptypes, although I'm still trying to debug the problem a bit more. I noticed in your previous e-mail that you had and exclude list in your call to tar, and so thought this might be relevant. Basically, whenever I put 'exclude' in any format in a dumptype definition, that particular dump fails exactly how you've listed in your message (the sendsize fails). To see if you've hit the same bug (?) try removing the 'exclude' from your dumptype and see what happens... J. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ John Ouellette | Ph: 212-313-7919 Department of Astrophysics | Fax: 212-769-5007 American Museum of Natural History | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Central Park West at 79th St. | http://research.amnh.org/astrophysics New York, NY 10024-5192 | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
