Hello,

Am I reading you correctly that you haven't gotten a full dump yet and
amanda is displaying 'can't switch to incremental dump'?

If this is the case, read on...

Do you have the parameter "reserve" set in your amanda.conf file?  if
not, it defaults to 100%.  this means that the holding disk is 100%
reserved for incremental backups.  you get the aforementioned message
because amanda hasn't performed a full backup yet, therefore there isn't
a such thing as an incremental.

I have my reserve value set to "30".  My thinking (possibly flawed) is
if I leave enough non-reserved holding space to accomidate a number of
full backups, I will be ok.  At a minimum, I must ensure that 70% of my
holding space can hold the largest level 0 backup I have to do.



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.  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.  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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