Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:07:31 +0000 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Devin Smith <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time for my first backup, how do I install a DDS drive?? Message-ID: <20011126140731.GM2132@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20011126085151.A19682@tharmas.rintrah.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111261128190.101-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <009d01c17675$3cf20630$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011126080318.A19559@tharmas.rintrah.org> <00b301c1767b$64c28850$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011126085151.A19682@tharmas.rintrah.org>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:51:51AM -0500, Devin Smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:08:07PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > What if I'm doing backups with dump? > > I don't think dump has any inherent way to verify. You might try restore the very last file, which should give a general idea about whether it worked. Nothing like tar --verify, though. Sorry. He could try a restore with the -N flag, which basically does a restore but doesn't write anything to disk. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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