Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 13:26:47 -0500 on Friday, December 12, 2008:
 > I did the first backup on a new machine but aborted it part way
 > through because I had the excludes wrong. It was recorded as a partial
 > level 0 backup.
 > 
 > I then ran BackupPC_dump from the command line using '-i'
 > (incremental) which completed without errors
 > The partial backup was (appropriately) replaced by the new backup
 > which was (appropriately) assigned Type=full (since there were no
 > previous full backups).
 > 
 > However, the first backup on my list now is:
 > 
 > Backup# Type Filled Level
 >   0     full  yes    1
 > 
 > This seems strange (at least at first glance) to have a "full" backup
 > that is not level 0.
 > 
 > Is this intentional? If so, what is the reasoning behind it?
 > 
 > Thanks
 >

Update... definitely seems like a bug because the next incremental
backup was also listed as a level 1 but now we have a level 1
incremental with no preceding lower level full backup...

Backup# Type Filled Level
  0     full  yes    1
  1     incr  no     1

This can't be right...

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