From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 6: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6270937B41A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:09:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 168MPz-00012G-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:07:31 +0000 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:07:31 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Devin Smith Cc: Anthony Atkielski , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time for my first backup, how do I install a DDS drive?? Message-ID: <20011126140731.GM2132@irrelevant.org> References: <009d01c17675$3cf20630$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011126080318.A19559@tharmas.rintrah.org> <00b301c1767b$64c28850$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011126085151.A19682@tharmas.rintrah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011126085151.A19682@tharmas.rintrah.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:51:51AM -0500, Devin Smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:08:07PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > What if I'm doing backups with dump? > > I don't think dump has any inherent way to verify. You might try restore the very last file, which should give a general idea about whether it worked. Nothing like tar --verify, though. Sorry. He could try a restore with the -N flag, which basically does a restore but doesn't write anything to disk. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message