On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:16:54AM -0500, ahall AT secureworks DOT net wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> (I sent a mail about this a few days ago, so if I am duplicating info
> please forgive)
> 
> I still cannot get one of my disks to dump correctly.  It is reporting the
> error "can't switch to incremental dump".  I have unforced the dump w/
> amadmin just in case.  I have a tape with more then enough space to
> archive this data.

Then why amanda go in degraded mode?

>     I have plenty of space in my holding disk.  I just
> cannnot figure out why this dump is trying to do an incremental dump and
> why it cannot.

It try an incremental because you don't allow full in degraded mode (reserve).
It can because amanda never get an estimate for an incremental.

>  If I use amadmin and force a level 0, shouldn't amanda
> only run a level 0?  The logs in /tmp/amanda dont point me to the solution
> either.
> 
> I am really confused here and any help would be appreicated.
> 
> 
> Thank You.
> 
> 
> Andrew

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