Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:16:04 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr Subject: Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify? Message-ID: <20050307171604.GB76601@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1145660633.20050307160515@wanadoo.fr> References: <1946173739.20050307145644@wanadoo.fr> <200503071447.j27ElWW10343@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1145660633.20050307160515@wanadoo.fr>
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--5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I'm surprised there isn't just some way of reading the tape and doing a > few simple sanity checks on the data (without comparing it to anything). > A drive or tape error would likely show on such checks. What you could do is dump to a file (on a different filesystem), then write the dump to tape with tar or cpio, and compare. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCLIxUEnfvsMMhpyURAmwUAKCBT31GWSalUZk0rSCnGYraWyhA8QCeLlz+ Gnb3HC973xjP+cUtbYZnXog= =d51H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs--
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