On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:24:23AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:
> > Is [the "strategy noinc"] option available?  I'd like to use it instead of 
> > the dumpcycle 0
> > option.
> 
> Any reason why?  "dumpcycle 0" can be an option on a specific dumptype,
> just like "strategy noinc" would have been.

I discovered recently that the two aren't identical.  If you
don't have enough space[*], Amanda will do its usual thing, and
degrade even "dumpcycle 0" dumps to level-1's as needed.

On the other hand, if "strategy noinc" means what it says, I
wouldn't expect that to happen.  I'm not sure what I *would*
expect; probably something like:
  - degrade *other*, non-"noinc" dumps as needed
  - if that still isn't enough, complain loudly
(If noinc is indeed implemented, that is; if not, this is all
pretty academic.)

[*] Holding disk space, in my case, but I presume the same would
    be true of tape capacity as well

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