Alexander Jolk wrote:

Toralf Lund wrote:

[...] I get the same kind of problem with harddisk dumps as well as tapes, and as it now turns out, also for holding disk files. And the disks and tape drive involved aren't even on the same chain.

Actually, I'm starting to suspect that gzip itself is causing the problem. Any known issues, there? The client in question does have a fairly old version, 1.2.4,

That rings a bell somewhere. Hasn't there been once a report on this list from someone whose zipped backups got corrupted at every (other) GB mark? Something with chunks on the holding disk having a header that didn't get stripped off when writing to tape?

Anybody remember which version had this problem, and whether that gave the same symptoms?

Alex