Frank, Thank you for your reply. My reserve was commented out, so I uncommented it. By looking more closely at the amdump file I see that it was reserving 100% of my holding disk for degraded mode archive.
Thanks, Drew On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:32, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Friday, December 12, 2003 12:52:24 -0500 Andrew Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I have amanda 2.4.4 running on FreeBSD. My setup is to have amanda > > write all backups to the holding disk, and then once weekly flush to > > tape. I don't really like it this way, but it must be. So currently > > there is an active tape in the drive, which amanda cannot right to, of > > course. > > > > My issue is that one of my targets is overdue for a lvl 0, but amanda is > > only running incrementals on this target. Can anyone shed some light on > > why amanda would be forcing a lvl 1, even when a lvl 0 is overdue? > > Sounds like you have 'reserve' set too high so there is not enough > room in the holding disk for a level 0 of that filesystem (Amanda > saves 'reserve' per cent of the holding disk for incrementals, so > (100 - reserve) is available for level 0s. > > Frank > > > > >> From amdump: > > > > host:/target overdue 7 days for level 0 > > pondering host:/target... next_level0 -7 last_level 1 (due for level 0) > > (picking inclevel for degraded mode) > > pick: size 48189400 level 1 days 11 (thresh 20480K, 1 days) > > > > TIA, > > > > Drew > >
