12 Jul
2001
12 Jul
'01
7:30 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I've never seen the dump program offer verification passes on SunOS...
some reference points would be nice.
It may have been a SunOS enhancement.
The closest thing on FreeBSD 4.3 is restore -N which restores without
writing anything to disk for tape verification.
Bill
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It's possible that current third-party
offerings are better than the
early stuff I've tried out, but my experience with backup software
has been pretty
Of course, the opposite applies as well. Does anyone know why newer
UNIX dump software tends to no longer support some form of
verification of the data dumped to tapes? Some classic dump software
once supported this, such as that found with SunOS 4.1.1.