On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:04:54PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote: > Guys > > I'm have _real_ trouble trying to force Amanda to do a L0 backup of the > system that was effected by Amanda wiping out the last L0. > > I've tried to force a L0 backup of it, like : > > amadmin DailySet1 force qtvpdc.lab:/Shares > amadmin: qtvpdc.lab:/Shares is set to a forced level 0 at next run. > > > But when amdump runs, it just schedules a L1 or L2 backup. > > As you can imagine I'm not best pleased as I _still_ haven't been able to > get an L0 of this system on tape 5 days later (after severely reducing the > filesystem size) > > Any ideas ???
Just a total off-the-wall one. Is your gnutar version 1.15.9?. Another thread today indicated that those tar versions have a defect that lets them cross filesystems improperly. Perhaps your tar is doing so also and the estimated size seems too large because of that. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)