Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jerry McAllister writes: > > > Actually, if used frequently for backups - such as every day, DAT is > > notoriously prone to failure. > > I've heard this for years, but I've never encountered it, on my own > systems or on any others. My drives are HP SureStore SCSI drives. > Currently I have BASF tapes, and they've gone through about 40 cycles. > I take backups every few days, or whenever there are large changes to > the data on the server (most of the time the only changes are log files > and things like that). > > > The only real thing you can do is to read back the tape and look > > for a couple of files with fairly high inode numbers for each file > > system dumped. If you can read them, you can assume the tape > > is readable. > > 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. Listing the archive contents might be what you're looking for, then... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
