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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 1995 10:36:35 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        andreas@knobel.gun.de, hsu@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Diffs to the dump utility, rewritten with respect to your comments
Message-ID:  <199511122336.KAA27739@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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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

I refuse to use cpio or dump because of the lack of such a feature.
I depend on tar's `d' option to check all major backups.

Bruce



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