--On Monday, March 07, 2005 06:16:04 PM +0100 Roland Smith
<rsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
I ran across something just last night that was pretty slick:
<http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/>
Using rsync to backup both locally and remotely.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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