>Is there any way to re-do this backup onto a good tape or am I hosed? Amanda normally uses the same level as it did on the previous run unless it thinks there will be enough savings to warrant moving to the next level. It's not unusual on a very static file system, for instance, to do all level 1's between level 0's.
In your case, what you really want is for Amanda to **not** bump to the next level, since that would mean you would need the intermediate level (that you don't have) during a restore. For instance, if Amanda did a level 2 on the tape that was bad, you want it to do a level 2 again and *not* go on to a level 3. Actually, you would be OK even in this case if the dump before the one that had the problem also did a level 2, but now the accounting (is this one good or not) is getting a bit complicated. The first thing I would try is "amadmin <congig> force-no-bump". I think you'll have to run this once per client. That tells Amanda that no matter what it thinks about bumping to the next level, it should not do it. Then compare, very carefully, the next run to the run that had the problem. If Amanda redid all the backups at the same level (or dropping back to do a full would be OK), then you should be in good shape. If it gets most of them right and just a couple bump anyway, use "force" on them for the run after next to get them to do a full. >Ben John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
