Re: Are Tapes Verified During Backup? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Are Tapes Verified During Backup?
From: Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:47:27 +1000
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On 21/04/2010, at 12:49 AM, Jerry Adams wrote:

In this year's audit letter, the auditors said that the tapes that we use for backup are not verified.

Like others have said: Get them to define "verify"

If they just mean "Can the tape be read successfully" then it's easy to add such a feature. I showed how to do that on this list back in January 1998.

http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/199801/msg01188.html

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Simon Coulter.
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