>Looks like some temporary compressed index files from the current run >should be there but are not. ... > >Do you see similar behavior ?
As Joshua said, this is to be expected. Amanda is creating those files and removing them during the time GNU tar is also backing them up. You *might* (haven't test this) be able to use an exclude pattern to make GNU tar ignore those files: ./usr/local/var/amanda/idx/DailySet1/index/*.tmp JJ
