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From: jeffrey@algor2.uu.net (Jeffrey Kegler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: validating dumps
Summary: Is listing the contents sufficient?
Message-ID: <1989Aug12.063242.544@algor2.uu.net>
Date: 12 Aug 89 06:32:42 GMT
References: <794@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler)
Organization: Algorists, Inc.
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In article <794@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) writes:
>I'm trying to validate dump tapes.
>
>I liked someones idea of trying to restore the last file on the tape.
>

I have always simply reread the tape's table of contents.  Does anyone
have experience of this failing?  "Fail" is defined here as a
successful read of the table of contents where the tape's contents
were bad.
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Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
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