Frank,

Thank you for your reply.  My reserve was commented out, so I
uncommented it.  By looking more closely at the amdump file I see that
it was reserving 100% of my holding disk for degraded mode archive.  

Thanks,

Drew

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:32, Frank Smith wrote:
> --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
> 
>