Re: Are Tapes Verified During Backup?

[Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>]

We could go back to the days when 'real' tape drives had multiple heads and
on writes the second head when then read what was just written...

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:00 PM, <elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jerry,
> I verify my LTO2 tapes each day after tape save and DSPTAP completes, by
> restoring one file from VERIFYBKUP library which I created for this
> purpose
>
>
> RSTOBJ     OBJ(F) SAVLIB(VERIFYBKUP) DEV(TAP01) +
>             ENDOPT(*REWIND)
>
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