On Thursday 29 September 2005 07:15, 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.

That was the holding disk Jon.  It should either be excluded, or
specifically not named in a disklist entry.  He's probably backing up
'/', rather than naming the subdirs in his disklist.

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