OK, I figured out what was going on: a combination of a bad 'tape' and a lack of available 'tapes'. Once I fixed that, the backup went through.
At Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:49:17 -0400 Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote: > > What does this error mean: > > frodo /Users lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] > > I *want* to do a level 0 backup. Frodo is a MacMini (running MacOSX). I am > using AMANDA 2.5.0p2 with a CentOS 5 server (with the stock 2.5.0p2 > amanda-server RPM installed). I want to do a full (initial at this point) > backup of the /Users directory. The past few days the estimate has been timing > out and I want to manually get a good full (level 0) backup, but it appears > that it is simply not possible to back up this directory. What do I need to do > to fix this? > > I use this command line on the server: > > amdump deepsoft-normal frodo /Users > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
