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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
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Subject: Re: Verify Dump Backups
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What if I wrote tar to a tape?  How could I verify that?

I need some sort of solution where I can do level 0 dumps daily, and
verify each backup.  I tried amanda, but in disaster recovery, it seems
like such a pain in the butt to do a base install of freebsd, install
amanda, configure it, then run the amrestore program.

Probably best to use a simpler solution for what I am doing.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Rick Duvall

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

> I don't know for sure, but I think the file list (restore -t) is kept at
> the beginning of the dump so that could be valid, and the rest corrupt.  I
> think.
> 
> Other then restoring to a dummy partition and comparing, I don't know of
> any other way.  I periodically manually restore some files just to see...
> I suppose you could work that into a script... select a random file each
> night from those backed up and restore it, then compare it with the
> original.
> 
> Better than nothing...
> 
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rick Duvall wrote:
> 
> > How do I verify a tape backup made with dump as part of my nightly backup
> > shell script?
> >
> > I see that restore -t will print the files and the sizes of the files, but
> > I just want to know if what is on the tape matches what is on the
> > filesystem after the dump..
> >
> > Thanks...
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Rick Duvall
> >
> >
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