On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:08:06PM -0400, Daniel T. Gynn wrote:
> I am having problems with AMANDA doing [i.e. promoting to] full
> backups when I don't want it to.

This looks as though it'll do it (see amanda(8)):

     maxpromoteday "int"
          Default:  10000.  The Maximum number of day for a  pro-
          motion, set it 0 if you don't want promotion, set it to
          1 or 2 if your disk get overpromoted.

> I've tried 'amadmin config force-no-bump', but it doesn't seem
> to help and actually seems to make it worse if possible.

force-no-bump does exactly the reverse of what you want -- so
yes, it could well make things worse :-/  It prevents Amanda from
going to a higher dump level; what you want is to prevent Amanda
from going to a *lower* level (i.e. 0).

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