I set up a new amanda backup set. It consits of about 20 servers each with about 3 or 4 filesystms to dump. I've configured amanda correctly (I think), and when i ran the first dump using "amdump Dailyset1" it came back with errors for every filesystem saying it cant do incrementals. I know why this is occuring. Since its the first time Im dumping the filesystems it need a full dump of the filesystems before it can do incrementals. My questions are these:
What do I need to do to get the fist amdump to work? - ie. do I have to force a level 0 dump on all filesystems. If this is the case, wouildnt there be too much data to put to tape if a level 0 dump of everything was necessary. And if thats the case, I would have to wait a day or too before all filesystems had a chance to to a level 0 dump. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.