If you ran out of tape space on the last file of the tape, an amverify
will show an error or warning.  However, running out of space is
perfectly normal.  The file will be written to the next tape.

Of course, if a file was completely written to tape, but amverify
shows a partial read, this is a problem.

Alexander Jolk <alexj AT buf DOT com> writes:

> Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
>>>>>How can i control if files are written correctly?
>>>>
>>>>Doing a test restore from time to time.
>> So i cannot trust amverify report? This is not a good news...
>
>
> Well, if you are using software compression, gnutar -t will actually run 
> the decompression phase.  gzip has a (simple) checksum that will catch 
> most errors at this stage.
>
> Alex
>
>
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