On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:51:52AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:16:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > (I sent a mail about this a few days ago, so if I am duplicating info > > please forgive) > > > > I still cannot get one of my disks to dump correctly. It is reporting the > > error "can't switch to incremental dump". I have unforced the dump w/ > > amadmin just in case. I have a tape with more then enough space to > > archive this data. > > Then why amanda go in degraded mode? > > > I have plenty of space in my holding disk. I just > > cannnot figure out why this dump is trying to do an incremental dump and > > why it cannot. > > It try an incremental because you don't allow full in degraded mode (reserve). > It can because amanda never get an estimate for an incremental. >
Jean-Louis, If the tape was sufficiently sized, but insufficient holding disk, am I correct that it would backup directly to tape? jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
