On Thursday 29 September 2005 07:15, 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.
That was the holding disk Jon. It should either be excluded, or specifically not named in a disklist entry. He's probably backing up '/', rather than naming the subdirs in his disklist. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.