The problem is that amanda it's always failing to estimate the size for this disklist entry (DLE).
This is from log.20041008.0 FAIL planner pi /scratch 20041008 0 [disk /scratch, all estimate failed]
What is in the debug file on the client /tmp/amanda/sendsize.DATESTAMP.debug ?
How long did it take?
Not completely clear from your post: did other DLE's on the same host did get a good estimate? Do they use dump instead of tar?
When running "runtar" by hand on the client, did you run that as user amanda or user root?
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