validating dumps

[ody]

  At a minimum I would read the T/C and dd the whole dump to /dev/null
to be sure the tape can be read. The Xenix restore has a C option which
checks the tape byte for byte against the filesystem. Slow, but faster
than recreating several MB of lost data.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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