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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Problems (cpio read errors)
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.130714.23437@pegasus.com>
Date: 20 Jan 91 13:07:14 GMT
References: <1701@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <1991Jan14.052704.23339@karnak.cactus.org> <1991Jan15.165807.12417@pcserver2.naitc.com>
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>This is a REAL common failure mode.  I lost a disk and found my backups were
>worthless on this one once.  Fortunately, I was able to recover the data off
>the hard disk (another one of my horror stories).


A backup without a verify is not a backup.



-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com