I'm having a similar problem someone reported earlier. 
I have a subdirectory I'm tying to archive with gtar from
the client "arnold".  It failed, so I subdivided it into 
smaller pieces.  For example, I have about 10 user directories, 
so I have a config for the directories a-b, c-d, e-g, h-m, and n-z.  
Here's what I get:


> -----Original Message-----
 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> arnold  /z/workareas-eg  lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection reset by
peer]
> arnold  /z/workareas-cd  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead
of 32768]
> arnold  /z/workareas-ab  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead
of 32768]
> arnold  /z/workareas-eg  lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry]
> arnold  /z/workareas-eg  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header:  got 0 instead
of 32768]
> arnold  /z/workareas-cd  lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry]
> arnold  /z/workareas-cd  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header:  got 0 instead
of 32768]
> arnold  /z/workareas-ab  lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry]
> arnold  /z/workareas-ab  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header:  got 0 instead
of 32768]
> 

And in the dump summary, I get this:
 
> DUMP SUMMARY:
> arnold       -rkareas-ab 0 FAILED  
> arnold       -rkareas-cd 0 FAILED 
> arnold       -rkareas-eg 0 N/A  242 --    N/A   N/A     N/A   N/A  PARTIAL
> arnold       -rkareas-hm 0 242  32  13.3  25:58 158.9   0:0311598.7
> arnold       -rkareas-nz 0 106  22  21.1  10:58 164.6   0:0211269.6

> 
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Any idea why I get two of the sub sections, partail of one, and nothing from
the
other two?