Actually it was set to 0, since I it suppose to be archival dump(no 
incremental) 
---- Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote: 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:40:14PM -0400, dobryanskaya AT adelphia DOT net 
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Also, I'm positive, that we had enough space for holding disk to hold
> > this particuar FS. Why did it start "directly to tape" (log's the very
> > first line)? 
> 
> Have you adjusted the holding disk "reserve" parameter?
> By default it reserves 100% for incrementals in case of
> degraded operation (eg. no tape available).
> 
> In my case, the holding disk can store several days
> worth of normal backups, full and incremental.  So I've
> adjusted the reserve down to 10 or 20%.
> 
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