On 04/07/10 09:54, James Harper wrote: >> On 04/07/10 06:27, bitbyte wrote: >>> What do you think a restore is?Think you need to go again to the >>> elementary lessons? Periodical restores checks the status of the >>> files that are being backed up,so that we can be sure that they are >>> backed up correctly without errors? >>> >>> This just doesn't mean that we do baremetal or something like that >>> automated :):) >> >> This sounds as though you should look into the Verify feature and see > if >> it does what you need. >> > > A verify is not a substitute for a restore test. A verify tells you that > the data is on the media, it doesn't tell you that you can get it back. > > A regular full (or partial) restore test should be a part of any good > backup regime.
Oh, sure. But as best I can understand the OP, it seems to me that verify is what he's looking for. However, I could easily be misunderstanding. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users