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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX tape backup utilities ( SysAdmin from UniSolutions Assoc.)
Message-ID: <358@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 15:44:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.358
Posted: Mon Aug 24 15:44:36 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Aug-87 07:21:21 EDT
References: <153@tijc02.UUCP> <1143@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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Keywords: menus security backups
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In article <1143@ttidca.TTI.COM> sm@ttidcc.UUCP (The Root of all Evil) writes:
>SysAdmin lets you backup in either dump or cpio format (for logical file
>backups), dd or volcopy (for physical backups) and dump, cpio or tar
>(for file archives).  The tapes are verified after each backup and an

I have seen this claim of "verifying the backup" now for a couple of
"tape management" style backup systems that use cpio or tar for the
actual backup.  Have these vendors modified tar/cpio to do actual data
verification or does their idea of verification mean being able to
get a listing of the table of contents without getting any errors, or
possibly extracting all the files into some spare disk partition and
doing some sort of file comparison?

-Fred
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