>> Hi there,
>>
>> after a period successfully using amanda on our lan, I think about the
>> possibillity to verify the contents on an amanda tape (before removing
>> the files from holding disk).
>>
>> >From my point of view: Making backups is necessary, but how to enshure
>> that the data would be read from the tape once a data loss on any
client?
>>
>> Exist there a regular way to make a veryfy. If not, exist there any plan
>> to implement one?
>>
>> bye mike
>
>amverify? (But afaik it reads back the tape only)
It could be a solution. But amverify runs amrestore on each file on the
tape,
pipes the output to the appropriate restore program and discard all than
the
return codes. Therefore it reports only the readability of an amanda tape.
I think if the verify contains a binary comparison on each file in the
archive,
it will be more secure.
bye mike
