Hi 

Cheers for the reassurance.

I will make note of your comments to file.

Thanks

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 07:15 -0400, 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.
> 
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