Re: full system save tape verification

The only real way to know if you have everything is to do a recovery test on different hardware. Several organizations will assist ( at a cost) in doing that (including Agile).

There is a standard that suggests it will take at least two attempts to get it right. Sometimes it only takes once, but that’s not the rule.

What’s the default on journaled objects? Did you change the default to ignore omits? Save spool files? Experience says there will be difficulties.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Feb 24, 2025, at 3:18 PM, Elden Fenison <Elden.Fenison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We do a full system save periodically on a weekly basis. I believe this is a backup that we could boot from and do a bare metal restore. My question is... how can we verify/validate the tape to be sure it's good for that purpose?

My thinking was... perhaps we could boot off of it... and just not take the step to actually do the restore.


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Elden Fenison
Programmer/Analyst
Murphy Company
elden.fenison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:elden.fenison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
541-461-1304

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