On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 05:24:07PM -0500, Rusty.Major AT sungard DOT com wrote:
> There is or was an 'issue' with NDMP where the dump levels for 
> incrementals rolled past 9 and went back to 0, causing a full and it would 
> stay at dump level 0 until the next scheduled full ran. I cannot find a 
> technote or any documentation on it, but I believe it was related to 
> cumulative incs only (since that is dump level 2-9) and a schedule where 
> the cumulatives were set to run more than the available dump levels. So 
> the first 8 days you would be ok, but on the ninth and subesquent 
> cumulative inc days you got a full.

Not exactly what I see, but similar.

When my differentials run too long, it just keeps doing level "9".  So
this becomes a cumulative and the size starts growing.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9....

Each backup from that point on is all changes since the "8" was done.

-- 
Darren
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