Amanda reports the following:

                                      DUMPER STATS                  TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME  DISK           L  ORIG-KB   OUT-KB COMP%  MMM:SS   KB/s  MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- -------------------------------------- --------------
meow      sd3e           0   FAILED --------------------------------------------


In /tmp/amanda/sendsize.debug, I found this:

calculating for amname 'sd3e', dirname żvar'
sendsize: getting size via dump for sd3e level 0
sendsize: running "/sbin/dump 0sf 100000 - /dev/rsd3e"
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Apr 23 04:19:23 1999
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd3e (/var) to standard output
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated -566766 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Fri Apr 23 04:22:24 1999
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: -83.31% done, finished in 0:-11
  DUMP: -166.39% done, finished in 0:-16
  DUMP: -239.76% done, finished in 0:-21
  DUMP: -311.54% done, finished in 0:-26
  DUMP: -374.60% done, finished in 0:-31
  DUMP: -445.60% done, finished in 0:-36
  DUMP: -517.71% done, finished in 0:-41
  DUMP: -580.58% done, finished in 0:-46
  DUMP: 3625131 tape blocks
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Fri Apr 23 05:06:56 1999
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:44:32
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 1356 KB/s
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Apr 23 04:19:23 1999
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Fri Apr 23 05:06:56 1999
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 1356 KB/s
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
.....
	    
And df says:

Filesystem              1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd3e                   8354685  3615568  4321382    46%    /var


It looks like dump had a problem with disks that have more than 2^31 bytes
in use.  Is there a fix for this?  I'd like the backups to work properly
again...

Thanks,

  -jm