Re: strategy to prove backups are good

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DUPTAP is a good element of the plan--you can carry those tapes to a safe
place and archive as required/desired.  In addition, you can set up a job
on your system that restores a handful of objects off the tape and from
each library into QTEMP; this gives a very high confidence level that all
the objects saved can be restored.  If the restore fails, you probably have
a bad tape and you DUPTAP again.

On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM Gavin Inman <midrangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> We back up to a vIrtual Tape device.   After the system comes back up,
> we issue a DUPTAP command from the Virtual drive to a physical tape.  If
> the virtual backup tape isn't good, the DUPTAP job will fail.   We
> consider that a verification.
>
> Gavin.
>
> On 4/20/2025 3:55 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> Auditors want proof that the backups indeed did a backup.
>
> Strategy?
>
> Perhaps read jog log for confirmation of each step?
>
> SAVSECDTA
> SAVCFTG
> SAVLIB *ALLUSR
> SAVDLO
> SAV <IFS>
>
> TIA,
>
> Jerry
>
>
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