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 -- 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
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