Greetings!.

I have been backing up 4 systems using amanda for a long time successfully. For 
the past two days, I have been getting the following error in backing up one of 
the file systems. I'd really appreciate any solution/thoughts on resolving this 
problem.

Thanks You,

mangala Gunadasa



FAIL dumper eprod /eg 0 [/usr/sbin/vxdump returned 3]                           
  sendbackup: start [eprod:/eg level 0]                                         
  sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/sbin/vxdump                                      
  sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/opt/gnu/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/sbin/vxrestore -f... 
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  sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz                                          
  sendbackup: info end                                                          
  | vxdump: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Jun 20 02:51:11 2003                 
  | vxdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch                                
  | vxdump: Dumping /dev/vx/rdsk/EG/vol01 (/eg) to standard output              
  | vxdump: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]                                    
  | vxdump: mapping (Pass II) [directories]                                     
  | vxdump: estimated 4766166 blocks (2327.23MB) on -0.02 tape(s).              
  | vxdump: dumping (Pass III) [directories]                                    
  | vxdump: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]                                   
  | vxdump: 24.63% done, finished in 0:15                                       
  | vxdump: 50.77% done, finished in 0:09                                       
  | vxdump: 81.65% done, finished in 0:03                                       
  |   vxdump: Signal on pipe: cannot recover                                    
  | vxdump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.                                         
  sendbackup: error [/usr/sbin/vxdump returned 3]