2006/1/27, shoaib r <shabswork AT yahoo.co DOT uk>:
> I've had backups working for over 2 months now.
> A system reboot started daily failures on the remote machine:
> The tape server is backing its filesystems up sucessfully. However the one
> and only remote server is not.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>   Thank you

Just a shot in the dark, but a reboot will usually boot the newly
installed kernel if you have something like yum update set on
automatic.

Check e.g. /var/log/messages, uname -r, dmesg

I am assuming you run Linux and use yum.   Similar things could have
happened with automatic apt-get upgrade.

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