On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:

>Leopold.Schenner AT ebewe DOT com wrote:
>
>> in our environment there is one linux system (SuSE 8.1 amanda-2.4.4-41) 
>> where amanda not increase the dump level to 2,3... I tried it with 
>> different bumpsize,bumpdays and bumpmult values but the result is always 
>> the same - dump level not greater than 1...Is there anyone who has 
>> experience with such behavior ? The backup on that system is performed 
>> via "dump".
>
>Have a look in ~amanda/YourConfig/amdump.* and see what planner
>gets back for the different levels, especially level 2.
>If the savings are not big enough, amanda will not bump a higher level.

I had the same problem until I saw that "/etc/amandates" wasn't
getting updated.  That clued me in that the "record" option under the global
dumptype was "no" by default, and all my dumptypes were inheriting
this.  

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