On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:51:52AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> 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.
> 

Jean-Louis,

If the tape was sufficiently sized, but insufficient holding disk,
am I correct that it would backup directly to tape?

jl
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