On Friday 28 July 2006 13:05, Frank Smith wrote: >> Alan Pearson wrote: >>> Now I'm faced with more difficulties because of this. >>> >>> Amanda is only dumping at level2 the machine it overwrote the only >>> full backup of. >>> >>> How can I force a level 0 dump ? >>> >>> Cheers, > >Pavel gave a response on 'how', but I'm confused as to the 'why'. >If the last full dump was overwritten, shouldn't Amanda be trying >to schedule a level 0 anyway, since there is no level 0 to base >an incremental on? > >Frank
There ya go again Frank, actually thinking, so you point that out to confuse us. :-) Good question, it should be trying, BUT ISTR amanda uses the index files for that detection, so maybe they were generated but the tape wasn't? I can't quite see something like that getting past the coders though. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
