There were no problems with amdump's level 0 run last night. sda10 backed-up along with the rest of my partitions. There was no power outage on any of the systems when sda10 failed to dump last weekend. I checked syslogs - etc. and found nothing. Thanks both to Chris and John for constant and helpful feedback. hope you are all not under 14 inches of snow. -- Denise E. Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer 734.822.2037 Multilingual Internet Domain Name Registrations - http://www.walid.com