Thanks one and all for your input, I am planning on using a holding disk, vtapes for storage and archiving to ati2 tapes. I realize that the amverify would be rough on tape drives, but if I use d2d I should be fine. And I'm aware that its done all on the clients but I need to be able to ensure that when the chips are down (or in this case all over the floor) that I can restore from my 12K system and not gee....|-:
______________________________________________________________________ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (734) 323-8776 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-amanda- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:05 AM > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: amverify - reality check? > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:42:52AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > > I've been tasked with "guaranteeing" that the backup vtapes or in > the > > > future real tapes are "good." So I found the command amverify that > > > seems to be the correct routine but I want to know does it > completely > > > check the archive and the files contained within? > > > > Amverify will try to extract any backup from the backup media, > > uncompress the files and see if they are readable. > > > > By no mean amverify will conduct a comparison file by file, for the > > simple reason that we are talking about live system and the files will > > have change between the moment they were backuped and the moment they > > are verified, so the verification would always show non-matching > > files, so you could not say anything about the correctness of your > > backup. > > > > If the backup were done on a snapshot this objection "might" > be worked around. > > Another reason a general procedure for verification does not > exist is that the backups are not done by the server, they > are done by the clients. The backup, compression, encryption, > etc. programs are all over there. The same programs may not > even exist on the server. So the dump would have to be extracted > from the backup medium, transfered across the network to the > client, expanded from the archive, and compared to the files > on the client. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
