On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:50:37PM -0400, rgrant AT rgfm DOT com wrote:
> Hi everyone, I recently got amanda compiled and running on Mac's running 
> OS 10.2.6 (kernel 6.6). The backups are done using amanda 2.4.4 (on Redhat 
> Linux 7.2) with gnutar and all seems well on the level 0, but when level 
> 1's are done it seems that it always reverts to level 0's. 
> I looked around and found the the files that seems to keep the incremental 
> info are stored in the format 
> /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/slice_name_0 , but on the said system 
> it stays as /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/slice_name_0.new . I am not 
> sure  why it keeps the .new extension ? 
> 

This could happen if you are using a dumptype with the no-record option.

The no-record option is for testing another Amanda version/configuration
or archive backups and makes no sense if you want normal incrementals.

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