Got me on this one.. The machine being backed up is a windows 98 machine with a share called docs - so this is being done with smbclient. Other windows dumps seem to work fine. I'm thinking this person may have disconnected their computer halfway through the dump?
Here are some pieces of the dump email ... (I replaced the wins name with XXXX) FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: adv2.kello //xxxxx/docs lev 0 STRANGE ..... [snip some stuff ] FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- adv2.kello //xxxx/docs lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [adv2.kellogg.nwu.edu://xxxxxx/docs level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/smbclient -f... - sendbackup: info end ? Error reading file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\BULOVA.MPG : code 0 ? Didn't get entire file. size=9286684, nread=1179360 ? code 0 opening remote file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\LUCKYS~1.MPG (\Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\) ? code 0 opening remote file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\MARLBORO.MPG (\Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\) ? code 0 opening remote file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\SOS.MPG (\Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\) ? code 0 opening remote file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\STRONG~1.MPG (\Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\) ? code 0 opening remote file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\STRONG~2.MPG (\Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\) ? code 0 opening remote file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\UNCOLA.MPG (\Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\) ? code 0 opening remote file \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\WESTIN~1.MPG (\Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\VIDEOS\) ? code 0 listing \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\PRINTADS\* ? code 0 listing \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\COMMENTS\* ? code 0 listing \Advertising\CD1\MODULE2\AUDIO\* ? code 0 listing \Advertising\CD1\MODULE1\* ? code 0 listing \Advertising\CD1\CLASS1~1\* .... And it goes on like this for quite some time ... Note that CD1 isn't actually a CD in a drive, its just a directory name. | tar: dumped 263 files and directories | Total bytes written: 473773568 sendbackup: size 462670 sendbackup: end \-------- Finally ... DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ adv2.kellogg -/backupdoc 1 5710 5760 -- 3:30 27.2 0:0025138.3 adv2.kellogg -xxxx/docs 0 462780 462816 -- 31:31 244.8 0:538705.3 (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3b2)