Gentlepeople, I have finally pulled my finger out and started backing up some of my files to tape. I am just creating an uncompressed tar archive on the tape (DDS3).
Since I am paranoid about my backups (at least until I am confident it is all working) I am doing a diff to the original files. Unfortunately I seem to be getting a lot messages of the form; filename: Contents differ This does not inspire me with confidence. I have done a number of backups of different files to different tapes and not one tape has been clear of these error messages at the diff phase. The tapes seem readable and I have discarded any tapes that get read/write errors either on reading or writing. Do I need to worry about this error? Is it worth restoring from the tape to another location and doing a disk to disk file comparison? If so, what comparison program should I use? Brendan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
