--On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 02:09:02 +0200 Nicklas Bondesson 
<nicklas.bondesson AT mindping DOT com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Currently amanda spits out level 1 dumps when pushing data to the
> holdingdisk. Is there a way to "force" it to do level 0 (full) backups when
> dumping to the holdingdisk?
> 
> When dumping to tape it always does level 0 (full) backups.

Look at the 'reserve' parameter in your amanda.conf.  The default is 100,
which reserves all of your holdingdisk space for incrementals, on the
theory that if your tape fails you want to be able to continue backups for
as long as possible.  If you have plenty of space. or your goals are different,
you can adjust that number down as appropriate and allow level 0s to go to
holdingdisk.

Frank

> 
> Regards,
> Nicklas
> 



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