On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 at 10:07am, Michael P. Blinn wrote

> I have had dumpcycle set to 0 for months, and yet I continue to have lots of
> level 1 backups. I saw a post through the last about forcing it each day and
> thought this would cure the problem. - Will fixing the below (reserve) allow
> dumpcycle 0 to do its thing and negate the need for the force command?

Yep -- it should.

> I'm not using a tape because for some reason backups fail and the network
> dies whenever amdump runs to a bad tape. I couldn't find a utility to test
> tapes for back blocks (or whatever they're called on streaming media) so
> until I can find out which of my tapes are dying, I just amflush them the
> next day.

So, yes, you're in degraded mode.  Set your reserve to 90 (or higher) and 
have at it.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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