On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:31:51AM -0400, Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote:
> Hello list:
> 
> Just want to know if anyone has ever experienced a case where a particular
> DLE would get bumped two levels instead of one.  For example, let's say
> that after a level 0, instead of level 1, that DLE would get bumped to
> level 2.
> 
> Sorry, I had to ask...

If talking about amanda's planning, it "shouldn't" happen.
I'm pretty sure that amanda does at most, estimates of three
dump levels; level 0, the last dump level, and the last level +1.

When done manually, the label tags are pretty arbitrary though.
You can do a full dump, then call the next dump an incremental level 9.
Its contents will be the same as if you called it a level 1.
I've seen suggested "fixed" dump level schedules that bounce around.
Some of these are on the dump man pages.  For example, from ufsdump
the first line of a suggested schedule:

              Sun    Mon    Tue    Wed    Thu    Fri
    Week 1:   Full    5      5      5      5      3

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