Subject: Re: verifying a backup
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/29/1998 20:28:08
mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (Michael C. Richardson) writes:

>  How can I verify a backup done with dump?
>  "restore -tv" just reads the list of files, not all the blocks.

>  I could do:
>	(restore -tv ; dd of=/dev/null)

Unfortunately, AFAIK, that's the best you can do.

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