[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > end I do have also problem with posting mails !!!
hi, I my opinion the problem is the following.. you should have the parameter "reserve" in your amanda.conf that is not good choosed. This parameter tells amanda which percentage of your holding disk that should'nt be used for full backup. for example: if the backup need to use 80Mb in the hoding disk and that the holding disk is a 100Mb HD and that the "reserve" parameter is set to 60 so 60% of 100MB is 60 MB that sould'nt be used for full backup so you still have only 40 Mb for full backup briner
