First off, thanks Joshua for responding so quickly. > > A few questions about my report. I have a cron set to force level 0 dumps > > a minute or two before the actual backup goes into place so that I can get a > > full level 0 on each tape. > > Why do it that way? Just use 'dumpcycle 0' and it should do the same > thing.
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? > > I understand "can't switch to incremental dump" because it was forced to be > > dump 0, right? > > Sort of. You don't seem to be using a tape, so amanda was probably in > degraded mode. What is your reserve set to in amanda.conf? If it's the > default, there's no room saved in degraded mode for level 0s, and you're > not letting it switch to incrementals, thus the FAILs. 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. Thanks again, -Michael Blinn
