gzip error with dump

From: Trevor Osatchuk <Trevor.Osatchuk_at_pscl.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:17:54 -0600

Hello there managers. I have a 4.0f system and I am trying to dump a
filesystem piping it through gzip with this command:

dump -0u -f - / | gzip > /mnt/mustang/rootdumpaug0801

 and I get this error:

dump: 56.54% done -- finished in 01:09
dump: 59.83% done -- finished in 01:03

gzip: stdout: Invalid argument

This has occured on three successive attempts all around 60% mark of the
dump. Now, I just succesfully made a dump of the same filesystem without
any errors, with and without piping through gzip. Is there a way to find
out which file this is getting the error on? I would think it was the same
file or directory as it happens at the same place.

Trevor Osatchuk
Process Solutions Canada Ltd.
Support and Integration Analyst
(780) 452-2227 Ext. 286
trevor.osatchuk_at_pscl.com

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
          - J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein
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