diff --git a/asterix-app/data/duplicateKeys.adm b/asterix-app/data/duplicateKeys.adm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2df08e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-app/data/duplicateKeys.adm
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+{"id":1}
+{"id":1}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/duplicate-key-error/duplicate-key-error.1.ddl.aql b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/duplicate-key-error/duplicate-key-error.1.ddl.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82ac15f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/duplicate-key-error/duplicate-key-error.1.ddl.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/*
+ * Description  : Create and load a dataset that has duplicate keys.
+ * Expected Res : Failure
+ * Date         : 04 July 2013
+ */
+drop dataverse test if exists;
+create dataverse test;
+use dataverse test;
+
+create type Schema as closed{
+id: int32
+}
+
+create dataset mydataset(Schema)
+primary key id;
+
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/duplicate-key-error/duplicate-key-error.2.update.aql b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/duplicate-key-error/duplicate-key-error.2.update.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8dbb67b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/duplicate-key-error/duplicate-key-error.2.update.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ * Description  : Create and load a dataset that has duplicate keys.
+ * Expected Res : Failure
+ * Date         : 04 July 2013
+ */
+use dataverse test;
+
+load dataset mydataset 
+using localfs(("path"="nc1://data/duplicateKeys.adm"),("format"="adm"));
+
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml
index d099b83..dd29199 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml
@@ -4269,6 +4269,12 @@
         <output-dir compare="Text">query-issue244</output-dir>
       </compilation-unit>
     </test-case>
+    <test-case FilePath="load">
+      <compilation-unit name="duplicate-key-error">
+        <output-dir compare="Text">none</output-dir>
+        <expected-error>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException</expected-error> 
+      </compilation-unit>
+    </test-case>
   </test-group>
   <test-group name="hints">
     <test-case FilePath="hints">
diff --git a/asterix-installer/ittest/asterix-lifecycle_backupRestore.adm b/asterix-installer/ittest/asterix-lifecycle_backupRestore.adm
index 8605e82..4d02644 100644
--- a/asterix-installer/ittest/asterix-lifecycle_backupRestore.adm
+++ b/asterix-installer/ittest/asterix-lifecycle_backupRestore.adm
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{ "DataverseName": "backupDataverse", "DataFormat": "edu.uci.ics.asterix.runtime.formats.NonTaggedDataFormat", "Timestamp": "Sun Jun 23 23:30:46 PDT 2013", "PendingOp": 0 }
+{ "DataverseName": "backupDataverse", "DataFormat": "edu.uci.ics.asterix.runtime.formats.NonTaggedDataFormat", "Timestamp": "Thu Jul 04 23:22:22 PDT 2013", "PendingOp": 0 }