On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Bluejay AT fujigreenwood DOT com wrote:

>> If you want a 100% fool proof verification, restore the data to
>> /dev/null.
>
> Not too long ago I had a DLT tape drive that would, occasionally, change a
> bit when reading tapes. No errors were reported anywhere. That this was
> causing other problems only became clear when I restored a file and
> compared it with the original file. And it was the tape drive itself.
>
>                                                                      -
> Bluejay Adametz
>

Very scary, what if you had 100 DLT tape drives?  It could be painful 
finding it.

_______________________________________________
Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu