Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:31:21 -0800 From: "Rick Duvall" <rduvall@onlinehighways.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Verifying integrity of Backup Tapes Message-ID: <000701c3a031$00b09500$f901a8c0@ws21>
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I have some backup tapes that I have been using each once per week for about 8 months. I am getting errors when running amverify on a couple of them. To be sure that my tapes are still good and not just the system giving me fits, it would be nice if I could run a program that would write bits to the tape in question and try to read them back, telling me which blocks on the tape are bad. Is there such a tool that does this? I guess it would be kind of like a scandisk is to a DOS Floppy as what I am talking about is to a Unix Tape. Sincerely, Rick Duvall Online Highways System Administrator (541) 997-8401 x 111
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