On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:33:25 -0500, Doc Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is why you TEST your backup tapes, folks... I learnt that the hard, but not critical way, some time back. We were using FDR for backups and creating 1 original and a copy at the same time. One copy would go in the firesafe and one would stay in the robbie (Comparex 6388 ACL if anyone remembers those beasts!) Anyway management decided that they wanted an offsite copy as well so I just added extra DD statement and made 3 copies at once. The job ran nicely, no failures and we, presumably, had 3 copies of all our data. Come DR time, I recalled the tapes from the offsite storage and tried to restore them. No go, at all. There was no data on them. Upon checking all the other copies they were exactly the same. Although the job said it had worked, no data was dumped to any tape. Luckily no-one wanted any data restored in that time period! Seb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
