> > Dan...
> > 
> > Are you say uasm <device> will tell me if there are any 'bad' records on
> > the tape?  I have 5 AIT2 tapes for this backup...this backup is for only
> > 1 drive on our file cluster.  Just mount the tape and run the command
> > you say...???
> 
> You don't mount the tape at all, but I think the newer versions of
> Networker will unmount it for you.
> You just run the command and it will read the tape and report any
> error it can detect.
> Be aware that this takes quite some time though.
> And the data is NOT compared against the original data.
> It is fine for physical errors and/or blocking problems and simpler
> logical problems though.
> But with uasm you can even verify a certain saveset :-)

Reading my own reply here I just realized that the answer is wrong.

You can do all the things I talked about but the command is of course
not uasm, but scanner.

Brainfart......

Dag

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