On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 5:48pm, Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior wrote

> Hello there.
> I just installed and configured an amanda server, and my first TAR
> dumps are returning:
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   <my host>     </my/sub/directory> lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to
> incremental dump]
> 
> I get this error even when forcing a level 0...

It's telling you that it can't do a level 0 dump for some reason (which 
you'd have to include the rest of the report for us to figure out, and it 
can't switch to a lower level because it hasn't ever done a level 0 of 
that fs.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University