Firstly my apologies if this has been answered recently on the list, I had a look in the archive but nothing seemed to match.
I'm having trouble getting a remote backup to work. The report states that the disk backup failed due to a timeout. Examination of /var/log/messages at the client shows that amandad exited 'status 1' but gives no other indication of the cause of the problem. This is happening with all disks on that client. The failure seems to happen immediately (I was trying to check the user that amandad was running under and the process did not last long enough to show). There do not seem to be any logs on the client to give more information and I was wondering if there is some sort of debug setting I could invoke. It ran correctly for a test about two weeks ago but has since consistently failed as above. Backups of the tape server host work correctly. Server is Slackware 10, client OpenBSD 3.5 if that makes a difference.
