On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:05:34PM -0400, Shane T. Ferguson wrote:
> I got the latest dump from sourceforge about 2 weeks ago.
Dump has been problematic, off and on, for years and years.
With each new release comes a new wave of users who proclaim,
"dump works well for me, now". Then comes the trickle for
whom it continues to fail.
The story repeats itself, on and on.
Consider using tar.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernhard R. Erdmann
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 4:41 PM
> To: Shane T. Ferguson
> Cc: Amanda-Users
> Subject: Re: [/sbin/dump returned 3]
>
>
> "Shane T. Ferguson" wrote:
> >
> > Whenever I do my backups, everything dumps fine except for 1 specific
> > partition (the / (root) partition on a remote machine). I always get the
> > following error:
> [...]
> > | DUMP: master/slave protocol botched.
> > | DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> > sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 3]
> > \--------
> >
> > I am using Amanda 2.4.2. The host machine is RH6.1 and the above client is
> > RH5.2. Also, other partitions on the above client dump fine. Any
> suggestions
> > as to what I did wrong? Thanks.
>
> What version of dump are you using? RedHat has an update to dump 0.4b19
> for RHL 5.2 available.
>
>
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