Verifying dump tape consistency without restoring

[Greg Onufer]

chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1990Nov8.004559.3904 at thirdi.uucp>
>scott at thirdi.uucp (Scott Southard) writes:
>>Does anyone know of any utilities for verifying the consistency of a
>>dump tape?
> [[ ... ]]
>I know of no such utility (though it would be useful, e.g., before
>moving a lab like we did here a few years ago).

SunOS 4.1 dump does exactly what you want.  It will fail, though, if
*anything* on the filesystem changes (ie, file access times), the
verify will fail.

Cheers!greg