Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: validating dumps Message-ID: <16892@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 13 Aug 89 00:38:45 GMT References: <794@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <1989Aug12.063242.544@algor2.uu.net> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Organization: I am NOT the NRA Lines: 18 In article <1989Aug12.063242.544@algor2.uu.net> jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler) writes: >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. Yes, too many times to count. In particular, I've gotten 'missing address/header block' errors from dump [ restor ] quite often on tapes which tested quite okay. I'd love to catagorically state this is a bug in dump, but I've never bothered to track it down since cpio works ... -- John F. Haugh II +-Quote of the month club: ------------ VoiceNet: (512) 832-8832 Data: -8835 | "Chocolate Teddy Grahams are just InterNet: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org | reincarnated Space Food Sticks." UUCPNet: {texbell|bigtex}!rpp386!jfh +------------ -- Richard Sexton ---