Hi Cheers for the reassurance.
I will make note of your comments to file. Thanks On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 07:15 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > 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. > -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830