On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 at 9:53am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I figured out what my issue was late last week so please forgive in the > delay in reporting my findings. What I am doing is not putting a tape in > the drive, so that forces amanda to write my incrementals to disk. What > appears to be happening is amanda will not run a full dump if there is no > tape in the drive. It will fall back on an incremental though. > > Is this the desired behavior? My fulls only require about 15G's > currently. My holding disk is 35G. Why will amanda not write a level 0 > if the holding disk has enough space?
Look for a parameter in amanda.conf called 'reserve'. The default is 100. That is the percentage of holding disk space that amanda reserves for incremental backups when running in degraded mode (i.e. no tape in the drive). If you want to get full backups in degraded mode, you need to set the reserve to something < 100 (enough less than 100, obviously, to fit your full backups). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
