On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:08:37 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> From my own experience, verify your tapes.
> 
> We do. On every backup run. And to this day, I have never, ever had a
> problem restoring something that the backup software said was OK.

Do you do a checksum-based verification, or a compare-to-disk 
verification?

> Indeed, if the tape is wearing out, I usually get an error message
> before the verify phase even begins. (Not sure how it manages that, but
> it often reports a CRC error...)

I imagine that even without a verify, your software checks during the 
backup process to make sure it was written properly.

Jim

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