[wplug-bsd] Verification of a dump archive?

[Larry Daberko]

Hi,
	I'm trying to find a way to verify a dump archive.  I'm backing up my 
FreeBSD systems using dump, piped over ssh to a remote backup server. 
I've read that there's no way to compare the dump contents with the disk 
contents so I figured it would be sufficient to test the archive by 
recovering a file.
	In the backup script, I create a datestamp.txt file immediately before 
the dump and delete it after the dump.  On the remote host, I can 
restore the datestamp.txt file easily by hand.  But I haven't figured 
out a way to automate this check.
	Is there a way to have restore work without operator intervention or am 
I going about this the wrong way?

-Larry Daberko