--On Monday, January 24, 2005 15:56:11 -0500 Nick Danger <nick AT hackermonkey 
DOT com> wrote:

> Paul Bijnens wrote:
> 
>> Nick Danger wrote:
>> 
>>> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>>> 
>>> Did that and sure enough, there it was. Dump error on /dev/hda2. Why? 
>>> Reiserfs is not dump-able? News to me. Argh!!
>> 
>> 
>> Neither would be the subdirectory /etc in ext[23]...  Dump cannot
>> do subdirectories (some can, but then they cannot do incrementals);
>> use gnutar.
>> 
> 
> I have changed the disklist to do tar.
> 
> tesla.hackermonkey.com          /etc            user-tar
> 
> Only now I get the error
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   tesla.hack /usr lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]
> 
> 
> Im assuming this is because I had tried, and failed, using dump before, and 
> now I need to 'clean out' the database records? How do I reinitalize it back 
> to 'this is the first backup you'll ever do' state?

To force a full, you can run:

amadmin config host DLE

but that may not help you.  Your error message said it tried
a level 0 and failed, and couldn't switch to an incremental
(probably since no previous level 0 existed).

Check the /tmp/amanda/debug* files on telsa, for more details,
but first look farther up in your report in the section called
"FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:" for the output from telsa.
That may contain enough info to not have to wade through the
debug files.

Frank

> 
> -Nick



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