I'm trying to run the dump during the day and then send the backup
to Amazon at night when it won't disturb my bandwidth. 

I've got two
entries in cron under the amanda user (amandabackup) 

0 9 * * *
/usr/sbin/amdump --no-taper dell
0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell

They both run, but it doesn't seem to do much of anything. I know that
it works, because when I run 
amdump dell & 
at the command line, it
will backup everything that should be backed up according to the
settings in the configuration file including incremental vs. full 
Does
no-taper mean something else than I think? I thought it just dumps
everything to disk but doesn't flush it out to tape. Here's some output
from that 
------------------------------------ 

Hostname: ubuntu Org :
Impari Systems Config : dell Date : October 4, 2011 There are 0G of
dumps left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The
next tape Amanda expects to use is: dell-0003. STATISTICS: Total Full
Incr. Level:# -------- -------- -------- -------- Estimate Time
(hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:02 Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:01 0:00
0:01 Output Size (meg) 12.7 0.0 12.7 Original Size (meg) 14.3 0.0 14.3
Avg Compressed Size (%) 89.1 -- 89.1 DLEs Dumped 6 0 6 1:6 Avg Dump Rate
(k/s) 388.2 -- 388.2 Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 Tape Size (meg)
0.0 0.0 0.0 Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 DLEs Taped 0 0 0 Parts Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- NOTES: planner: Full dump of
mlb-dell.local:"/media/windows/Documents and Settings/Matt Burkhardt/My
Documents" promoted from 1 day ahead. DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER
STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-GB OUT-GB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- -------------------------------------
------------- mlb-dell.loc -lb/Desktop 1 0 0 20.0 0:05 0.4 mlb-dell.loc
-/Documents 1 0 0 6.5 0:05 17.6 mlb-dell.loc -b/Pictures 1 0 0 12.0 0:05
1.2 mlb-dell.loc -lb/Quicken 1 0 0 10.0 0:00 21.7 mlb-dell.loc
"-ocuments" 1 0 0 7.5 0:05 1.2 mlb-dell.loc "-ocuments" 1 0 0 99.1 0:13
993.4 
(brought to you by Amanda version
3.2.0)

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Technology Management
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