A couple of lines from last nights report:

  FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
     ...
     bigcow  LastChanceC  lev 0  FAILED [data timeout]
     bigcow  LastChanceC  lev 0  STRANGE

"lastchance" is a PC being backed up via smbclient.
The "strange" message is nightly :(  The FAILED message is not.

The description of the "STRANGE" dump was:

  /--  bigcow LastChanceC lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
  sendbackup: start [bigcow:LastChanceC level 0]
  sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient
  sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/bin/smbclient -f... -
  sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
  sendbackup: info end
  | Domain=[LASTCHANCE] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
  ? NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED opening remote file \Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Applica
  tion Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\user.dmp (\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Application D
  ata\Microsoft\Dr Watson\)
  \--------

Normally is it much longer.  Also note, the lack of any final messages
from smbtar, like # of files and directories dumped, total bytes written,
and sendbackup size and end messages.  Seems to fit the 'failed' comment.

What surprised me was this line from the summary:

  DUMP SUMMARY:
                                  DUMPER STATS             TAPER STATS
  HOSTNAME DISK        L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS    KB/s MMM:SS    KB/s
  ---------------------- ----------------------------------- --------------
     ...
  bigcow   LastChanceC 0    7736   5255  67.9  68:56  1301.1   5:21 16760.9
     ...


Despite giving the appearance of having failed, it was "taped".
I didn't think that failed dumps were taped, are they?

The size is reasonable for a complete dump.


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