Use this command to display usefull information about the current or last backup:
-bash-3.00$ amstatus tapetwo Using /etc/amanda/tapetwo/amdump.1 from Fri May 5 09:34:15 PDT 2006 ppragin:/boot 0 2922k dumping to tape (9:37:12) ppragin:/etc 0 22361k dumping to tape (9:37:49) ppragin:/var 0 98081k dumping to tape (9:38:54) SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 3 estimated : 3 123364k flush : 0 0k failed : 0 0k ( 0.00%) wait for dumping: 0 0k ( 0.00%) dumping to tape : 3 123364k (100.00%) dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) dumped : 3 0k 123364k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) taped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) tape 1 : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) WeeklyTape-02 4 dumpers idle : no-dumpers taper idle network free kps: 2000 holding space : 1024000k (100.00%) dumper0 busy : 0:01:26 ( 28.70%) 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:05 ( 1.86%) not-idle: 0:00:05 (100.00%) 1 dumper busy : 0:00:37 ( 12.32%) start-wait: 0:00:37 (100.00%) 2 dumpers busy : 0:00:09 ( 3.18%) client-constrained: 0:00:09 (100.00%) 3 dumpers busy : 0:01:18 ( 25.99%) no-dumpers: 0:01:18 (100.00%) -bash-3.00$