Re: Help - ontape question

pmilitzer@ultracom.com wrote: > > Hi there, > > Is there any way to see is the data from an ontape -s -L 0 was writen > to the tape. Such as the tar command in unix , tar tvf /dev/rmt/0. > > We have had problems with this in past and are planning to upgrade our > Raid system to a differant size striping and want to make sure we can > read the backups we make. > > This also goes for the ontape -c command . An way to see if anything > has gone to the tape. You can use dd to read the first block from the tape. It contains text header information describing the archive and versions and your chunk list. Beyond that there is the archecker utility which you may be able to get from tech support if it is critical to your business that you be able to verify an archive. Art S. Kagel