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From: greg@cheers.Bungi.COM (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Verifying dump tape consistency without restoring
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Date: 12 Nov 90 04:13:15 GMT
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chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1990Nov8.004559.3904@thirdi.uucp>
>scott@thirdi.uucp (Scott Southard) writes:
>>Does anyone know of any utilities for verifying the consistency of a
>>dump tape?
> [[ ... ]]
>I know of no such utility (though it would be useful, e.g., before
>moving a lab like we did here a few years ago).

SunOS 4.1 dump does exactly what you want.  It will fail, though, if
*anything* on the filesystem changes (ie, file access times), the
verify will fail.

Cheers!greg