From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 11:01:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A38C16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:01:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02DA43D31 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:01:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Cwek0-00002D-0k for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:01:40 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:01:39 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20050202190345.GA8804@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20050202192926.GB8804@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20050203012221.GF17337@asu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050203012221.GF17337@asu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502031101.39344.ian@codepad.net> Subject: Re: gtar failing, please help! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:01:42 -0000 On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:22, David Bear wrote: > btw, I wonder how many tape unit users get burned by the fact that > they don't test their tapes -- and when they need the tape find that > it was bad.. I back up to CDs, and have it md5 the file going onto the CD then md5 it off again. It all happens in the middle of the night so it doesn't bother me that its slow. -- /Xian "Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment" unknown author