On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:13:01AM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: > Hi all I note that a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: occurred and I > assume that from the message at the bottom of the report that - file > changed as we read it has caused a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP. > > Have I got anything to worry about here!. > > On the myserver machine, the file _.1.tmp: has changed while it was > getting saved. > > and I have read that GNU tar is able to recover from this error.
You may not be able to recover that one file. But it was a temporary, probably only partially complete, file anyway so why care about it. Should not impact the rest of the dump. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)