On Nov 7, 2000, "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've done:
>>
>> [amanda %] amadmin CONFIG force host.our.host disk
>>
>> And received the confirmation message that it worked ...
>> but the amanda mail report reports it as a level 5
>> dump...what's up here?
> Maybe the sum of the estimates would not fit on a tape? The term "force"
> (I think) really means "give it your best shot". But if there is too
> much to back up, planner will have to defer some of the full dumps.
IIRC, `force' should be equivalent to marking the disk as a new disk.
That's what I recall from previous uses of `force'. The way I think
of it is: ``After a full restore, Luke, use the force'' :-)
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