Re: Ontape verification method?

I've raised this issue before. `ontape` has squat for verification. I think this is absolutely unacceptible. An archive utility is not an archive utility unless you can *verify* your archives. I've seen too many backups fail to feel comfortable trusting a backup utility just to throw data out to a drive without checking it * * * Informix: Lack of verification capability in `ontape` is an *unacceptible* deficiency in the product. * * * ON-archive has the CRC option and the VERIFY function to reread each save set after writing to tape. Although I don't know how thorough it is. Does anybody know if it actually does a bit-to-bit compare, or does it just read bytes off of the tape, checking only for readability? Austin Schutz wrote: > 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 -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *