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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 14:47:55 -0800
From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
Message-Id: <199511122247.OAA08663@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: andreas@knobel.gun.de
Subject: Re: Diffs to the dump utility, rewritten with respect to your comments
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  > Let's assume, he makes two backups, to be save, but he too lazy
  > or inexperienced, to check, if he can read it in....

Do you know how to check a dump w/o actually restoring to disk and
comparing files?  I was thinking of adding an option to restore to
restore to stdout, allowing something like 'restore | checksumprogram'
and comparing the checksum signature w/ the on-disk files.  Of course,
I'd be very happy if someone else beat to to it.

							Jeffrey