Re: Help with tar to tape?


Subject: Re: Help with tar to tape?
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 17:25:26 AKDT


On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Jim Dory wrote:

> Oops, maybe I wasn't clear enough. I used tar df to compare or verify
> the backup. Not to extract. Hence, when comparing, I was concerned about
> the errors.

One thing you might try is to restore the tape contents to a temporary
directory, and then compare md5 sums of the file. If they're the same, I
wouldn't worry about it.

Mike

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