Jon,

> Why do you bring up degraded mode?

err, I'd thought I'd had the terminology down.

Degraded mode - not using spool area, writing to tape, performance degraded.
vs
Tape unavailable - keeping whatever will fit in spool, as you noted
downgrading (up'ing?) the dump level if possible/required.

If what I'm calling "tape unavailable" is "degraded" then does the
first case have a name ?

                                                thanks,

                                        Brian "Jargon impaired" Cuttler


> Degraded mode is when amanda can not write directly to tape AND there
> is insufficient, unreserved, holding disk for level 0 dumps.  It then
> switches to making only incrementals to the holding disk/
> 
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