Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!leah!rpi!crdgw1!sungod!davidsen From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: validating dumps Message-ID: <1661@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 14 Aug 89 17:37:56 GMT References: <794@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <1989Aug12.063242.544@algor2.uu.net> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 8 At a minimum I would read the T/C and dd the whole dump to /dev/null to be sure the tape can be read. The Xenix restore has a C option which checks the tape byte for byte against the filesystem. Slow, but faster than recreating several MB of lost data. bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me