On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Orville Carter wrote:

> My question is on the two lines below. Is this something to be concerned
> about?
>
> DUMP: Broken Pipe
> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

The two lines before the ones you quoted are relevant:

buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written         10K

This usually indicates a tape or tape drive head problem. It means that
your backup did not complete.

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