Re: Verifying an Ontape backup...

Posted in 1998

Chuck Ludwigsen — Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:45:43 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Nathan E. McCorvie wrote: > > Is there any way to verify an Ontape backup (full) other than restoring it? > I'm using SCO Unix, the command syntax is /usr/informix/bin/ontape -s -L > 0, and the tape device is /dev/rStp0. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! > -- > Nate McCorvie > TDS TELECOM Information Systems > Consultant - Infrastructure & Application (Planning & Assessment) > mailto:nate.mccorvie@tdstelecom.com Talk to tech support about getting ARCHECKER. It reads the tape and pulls in the page headers to check for consistency of the archive. Chuck.