validating dumps

[Jeffrey Kegler]

In article <794 at Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> linda at cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) writes:
>I'm trying to validate dump tapes.
>
>I liked someones idea of trying to restore the last file on the tape.
>

I have always simply reread the tape's table of contents.  Does anyone
have experience of this failing?  "Fail" is defined here as a
successful read of the table of contents where the tape's contents
were bad.
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Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
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