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.

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