Hi,

>From time to time (more frequently of late), dump dies partway through the
backup script. What does this mean?

	DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured

Is it trying to print an error message?
Should I be copying stderr to stdout?

Here is the part of the e-mail report that shows the error.

dump 0ubdsf 126 108000 8500 /dev/nrst0 /usr/local
  DUMP: Ignoring u flag for subdir dump
  DUMP: Dumping sub files/directories from /usr
  DUMP: Dumping file/directory /usr/local
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Feb 22 22:18:43 2001
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping a subset of /dev/rwd0e (a subset of /usr) to /dev/nrst0
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 506502 tape blocks on 0.07 tape(s).
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Thu Feb 22 22:19:23 2001
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: End of tape detected
  DUMP: Closing /dev/nrst0
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Thu Feb 22 22:22:38 2001
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:03:15
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 1224 KB/s
  DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
  DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

Thanks.

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