On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:04:54PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote:
> Guys
> 
> I'm have _real_ trouble trying to force Amanda to do a L0 backup of the
> system that was effected by Amanda wiping out the last L0.
> 
> I've tried to force a L0 backup of it, like :
> 
> amadmin DailySet1 force qtvpdc.lab:/Shares
> amadmin: qtvpdc.lab:/Shares is set to a forced level 0 at next run.
> 
> 
> But when amdump runs, it just schedules a L1 or L2 backup.
> 
> As you can imagine I'm not best pleased as I _still_ haven't been able to
> get an L0 of this system on tape 5 days later (after severely reducing the
> filesystem size)
> 
> Any ideas ???

Just a total off-the-wall one.  Is your gnutar version 1.15.9?.

Another thread today indicated that those tar versions have a
defect that lets them cross filesystems improperly.  Perhaps
your tar is doing so also and the estimated size seems too large
because of that.

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