On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
A lot of it also depends on local practices.
1. Backups....scheduled..and monitored.
And RESTORED, whether you need to or not, on some schedule. A good
test, I'd say, is to pick ten files at random from the backup
catalogue every so often and restore them to a temporary location, and
then verify those files. (Assuming you can spare your tape library
long enough, because ten random files is a lot of loading/unloading/
seeking.)
Seriously: your backup regimen is USELESS if you cannot restore the
files you backed up, and "when you need them" is NOT the time to find
out that the tapes haven't been being written correctly.
Adam
