Ontape verification method?

Posted in 1997

Austin Schutz — Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:52:05 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

How would one go about testing an ontape archive to see if it is ok? I'd like to know that my backups are performing as expected without trying to restore them. Is there anything akin to tar's -tv options to show what's in an archive without actually writing over dbspaces? Ankythay, Austin