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[Veritas-bu] bpverify(1) is a joke, is it possible to restore to /dev/null?

2006-05-15 07:10:42
Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpverify(1) is a joke, is it possible to restore to /dev/null?
From: jpiszcz.backup AT gmail DOT com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 07:10:42 -0400
All,

I ran a restore last week which was on three tapes, on the second tape
it failed due to an I/O error, I repeated the restore and the same
result occurred.

I ran bpverify on the backup image ID and it said everything was OK,
obviously this is not a good way to test a tape's integrity!

Is there a way to restore all files to /dev/null?

Justin.