I have installed RedHat 6.1 on two Alpha platforms and one Intel platform.
All platforms ( Intel included ) showed a segmentation fault when I chose
the Backup Module option.

I have pulled over all the patches for 6.1 for both Intel and Alpha.( from
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:21/pub/Mirrors/updates.redhat.com/6.1/ )

After I update the Intel system and rebooted, Taper worked fine ( Backup
and restpre modules worked correctly). Unfortunately when I updated the
Alpha systems taper still caused a segmentation failure.


Below is a screen capture
                       Archive ID 947255731. Title 'test'
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*                                 Backup Module
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*                   ***************************************
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*              ************************************************
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*              *                                              *
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*              *    Success while uncompressing info files    *
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*              *                                              *
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*              *                                              *
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*              *                     OKSegmentation fault     *
*
[root@jambos Iain]# *******************************************
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*                   *                                     *
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*                   ***************************************
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*                               Save preferences
*
*
*
*                                     Exit
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                 Taper 6.9a by Yusuf Nagree (yusuf.au)


the message log held in /var/log shows

Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual
 address 0000000000000000
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: taper(648): Oops 0
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: pc = [__copy_user+288/468]  ra =
[ext2_file_write
+1852/2208]  ps = 0000
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: v0 = 0000000000000004  t0 = 0000000000000000
t1
= 0000000000000000
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: t2 = 0000000000000000  t3 = 0000000000000000
t4
= 000000001c10b640
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: t5 = fffffc000d0e7000  t6 = 0000000000000000
t7
= fffffc000cf20000
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: s0 = fffffc000df7bd20  s1 = ffffffffffffffea
s2
= 0000000000000004
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: s3 = 0000000000000000  s4 = 0000000000000004
s5
= fffffc000d1cabe0
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: s6 = 0000000000000000  a0 = 0000000000000803
a1
= 00000000007042d9
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: a2 = 0000000000000400  a3 = 0000000000000000
a4
= fffffc000cf23e98
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: a5 = 0000000000000001  t8 = fffffc0000584d80
t9
= 0000000000000000
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: t10= fffffc000d1cac78  t11= 000000000000000a
pv
= fffffc00004a7ae0
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: at = fffffc00003700a8  gp = fffffc000058b650
sp
= fffffc000cf23d58
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel: Code:
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel:  b4260000  stq t0,0(t5)
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel:  40e11407  addq t6,8,t6
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel:  40011520  subq v0,8,v0
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel:  40c11406  addq t5,8,t5
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel:  f49ffff9  bge t3,.-24
Jan  7 14:45:58 jambos kernel:  e4000007  blt v0,.+32
Jan  7 14:45:59 jambos kernel: *a4470000  ldq t1,0(t6)
Jan  7 14:45:59 jambos kernel:  a4260000  ldq t0,0(t5)
Jan  7 14:45:59 jambos kernel: Trace: 34a21c 42f9d4 354924 354c08 4a8224
4a9fc0
36fb80 310cf8