Thank you Gunnar and Dustin! I switched to tcp on one host yesterday and it worked fine so far. I will observe this for the next couple of days and report back to you.
Thank you again for your fast response, Volker Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: > Switching to tcp instead of using udp cured those problems. >> Hi, >> >> I'm having a bit of a problem on *some* servers concerning failed >> backups with the error message: >> lev # FAILED [spawn /bin/gzip: dup2 out: Bad file descriptor] >> > > Gunnar had a similar problem - maybe his experience will help? > > http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg42119.html > > Dustin >