validating dumps

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <1989Aug12.063242.544 at algor2.uu.net> jeffrey at algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:
>I have always simply reread the tape's table of contents.  Does anyone
>have experience of this failing?  "Fail" is defined here as a
>successful read of the table of contents where the tape's contents
>were bad.

Yes, too many times to count.

In particular, I've gotten 'missing address/header block' errors from
dump [ restor ] quite often on tapes which tested quite okay.

I'd love to catagorically state this is a bug in dump, but I've never
bothered to track it down since cpio works ...
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