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From: tom@mermaid.Litle.Com (Tom Hampton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Verifying Tape Writes
Message-ID: <528@mermaid.Litle.Com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 20:10:21 GMT
Reply-To: tom@mermaid.litle.com (Tom Hampton)
Organization: Litle & Co.
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We had thought that printing out a catalog of a tape's
contents prooved that the tape would be restoreable:

cpio -itvB </dev/tape

In practice, we have found that the above commamd completes
with success (repeatably) in instances where the tape proved
(repeatably) unrestoreable.

Any suggestions?
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