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Harondel J. Sibble (help@pdscc.com)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:35:42 -0800
On 24 Feb 99, at 20:44, Ted Powell wrote:
> If you are backing up an online medium, then by the time you have rewound
> your tape and started to compare it bit-for-bit with the original data,
> the original data may well have changed. All the spurious complaints you
> get (because it's a live system, and things are changing) will hide any
> real complaints you might get because of a tape error.
true, but that's pretty much true for any os with maybe the exception of
dos....
Plus as you do it a few times, you begin to notice what the norm is
changewise and can take that into consideration, just like one peruses the
security logs for out of ordinary events.
Harondel J. Sibble
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