Greetings;

I'm noting this in the email reports amanda sends me, where it doesn't 
make any diff what the runlevel is, its backing up the whole iso 
image for all levels.

As an iso image thats been laying there for months isn't going to 
change unless the file attribs say it has, why is amanda doing this?

>From the email:
coyote  -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso  1    563    563   --    3:1  
3005.2   2:3  3787.3
coyote  -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk2.iso  1    563    563   --    2:2  
3960.9   2:3  3778.4
coyote  -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk3.iso  0    562    562   --    2:3  
3624.3   2:2  3965.6
coyote  -sc/FC3/FC3-i386-SRPMS-disk4.iso  0    562    562   --    2:3  
3708.1   0:4 11858.3
coyote  -lds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disc1.iso  1    617    617   --    2:4  
3729.3   2:4  3941.5
coyote  -lds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disk2.iso  1    638    638   --    3:1  
3368.0   2:5  3665.4
coyote  -lds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disk3.iso  1    637    637   --    2:5  
3682.6   3:3  3084.0
coyote  -lds-misc/FC3/FC3-i386-disk4.iso  1    386    386   --    1:4  
3865.6   0:3 10250.7
coyote  --misc/FC3/FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso  1     76     76   --    0:2  
3790.3   0:0 80085.2

Its effectively wasteing around 4Gb of a 9GB virtual tape every night.
Nothing in the specified dumptype should be restricting it to 
always-full.  For this, it should be happy with one level 0 per 
dumpcycle with incrementals of zero bytes.

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