--On Friday, December 12, 2003 12:52:24 -0500 Andrew Hall <halla3 AT 
corp.earthlink DOT net> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have amanda 2.4.4 running on FreeBSD.  My setup is to have amanda
> write all backups to the holding disk, and then once weekly flush to
> tape.  I don't really like it this way, but it must be.  So currently
> there is an active tape in the drive, which amanda cannot right to, of
> course.  
> 
> My issue is that one of my targets is overdue for a lvl 0, but amanda is
> only running incrementals on this target.  Can anyone shed some light on
> why amanda would be forcing a lvl 1, even when a lvl 0 is overdue?

Sounds like you have 'reserve' set too high so there is not enough
room in the holding disk for a level 0 of that filesystem (Amanda
saves 'reserve' per cent of the holding disk for incrementals, so
(100 - reserve) is available for level 0s.

Frank

> 
>> From amdump: 
> 
> host:/target overdue 7 days for level 0
> pondering host:/target... next_level0 -7 last_level 1 (due for level 0)
> (picking inclevel for degraded mode)
>    pick: size 48189400 level 1 days 11 (thresh 20480K, 1 days)
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Drew



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