Verifying Tape Writes

[Tom Hampton]

We had thought that printing out a catalog of a tape's
contents prooved that the tape would be restoreable:

cpio -itvB </dev/tape

In practice, we have found that the above commamd completes
with success (repeatably) in instances where the tape proved
(repeatably) unrestoreable.

Any suggestions?
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