I'm getting these FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] messages each time I run a 
full dump on a config. I have dumpcycle set to 0 to force a full dump each time. The 
full backups worked up until last week. If it can't make a full dump, it should at 
least do an incremental which it also fails to do.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
host1.my /var lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]

I even tried using amadmin to force a full on the next run and I 
still get the same error messages. I checked the amanda tmp dir
for log info, but found nothing out of the ordinary.
 
amadmin: host1.my.com:/usr is set to a forced level 0 at next run.

I do not get any other message in my daily email besides the failed message.
I would understand if it was complaining that it was running out of holding disk space 
or if the host was unreachable. I even confimred that all hosts were up with amcheck. 

The real weird part is that if I can use another config to perform incrementals on the 
same partition /usr, then everything completes without any issues. My issue is that 
the backup just fails on fulls using dumpcycle 0 and can not even switch over to 
degraded mode (incrementals) when the fulls fail. I need to perform na incrmental 
using another config to get that to work. I have plenty of holding disk and reserve 
space set.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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