Also sprach Paul Bijnens (Wed 02 Jul 02003 at 11:23:10PM +0200):
> Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> ...
> >|   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> >? /dev/sda1: EXT2 directory corrupted while converting directory #195556
> >?
> >|   DUMP: Broken pipe
> >
> >
> >I do not find anything of this sort in the amanda archives.
> 
> Well, I do...
> 
>   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/44279
>   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/42244
> 
> A filesystem check helps too sometimes.
> 
> Dump for ext2 always had a bad reputation. There was no maintainer
> for dump for some time.  Are you sure you have the latest version
> from http://dump.sourceforge.net/ . It is supposed to work better.
> 
> I left dump a long time ago, and use tar now (I have a mixed
> Solaris / Linux / MS environment - gnutar makes interoperability of
> restores easy).

So, GNUTAR it is, then ;>

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