A follow up: Well, something like three or four weeks ago I posted an issue regarding that my amanda server logs were having "index tee: connection reset by peer" errors. These did not seem to be interfering with the archiving of data to tape. Possibly it was interfering with the writing of the indices, but I didn't check.
My system was lacking the "holdingdisk" type of disklist, so I added it in about a week ago. It seems to have fixed the problem. I have been checking logs daily, and seen no recurrence of that issue. Michael Martinez System Administrator Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture