Verification of tapes.

From: Middleton, Tim <Tim.Middleton_at_health.wa.gov.au>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 07:45:24 +0800

HI guys & gals,

Just a general question.

What utilities to people use to backup their systems?

I am using "cpio" at the moment for daily backups and use "dump" for
system backups.

I read the last file back from the tape to confirm that the files were
written OK. is it true that i CAN'T assume that if cpio finished with a
zero return code then everything is ok?

The reason i ask is that it takes 2 hours to backup 5Gb and and 1.5 to
verify it.

I suppose it would take longer to recover if the backups were not
verified! :-)

TIA.




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Tim Middleton
DMR Consulting Group Australia

Internet: Tim.Middleton_at_health.wa.gov.au
Phone: +61 9 2224116
Received on Wed Apr 09 1997 - 01:53:06 NZST

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