What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

[Roland Smith]

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
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