Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:37:57 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr Subject: Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify? Message-ID: <36CE4F1A86CD2170F1E38DC5@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050307171604.GB76601@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <1946173739.20050307145644@wanadoo.fr> <200503071447.j27ElWW10343@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1145660633.20050307160515@wanadoo.fr> <20050307171604.GB76601@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--On Monday, March 07, 2005 06:16:04 PM +0100 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> I'm surprised there isn't just some way of reading the tape and doing a >> few simple sanity checks on the data (without comparing it to anything). >> A drive or tape error would likely show on such checks. > > What you could do is dump to a file (on a different filesystem), then > write the dump to tape with tar or cpio, and compare. > I ran across something just last night that was pretty slick: <http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/>; Using rsync to backup both locally and remotely. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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