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How do you "verify a backup?"

Insure the tape is readable?
DSPTAP?
DSPTAP to *OUTFILE and verify everything on the system is on the tape?




On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeff,

I'm surprised at you! I would have thought that you would have tested your
backup.

A few years ago I had an auditor who, in an attempt to find something
negative to put in the audit letter, asked me if I had tested my backup.
Sure, I replied. Okay, well, do your verify every night's backup? BRMS,
which I didn't use, might have something to satisfy an auditor; I didn't so
I had to write my own. Made him happy.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:23 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: BRMS *SAVSYS - Media share

All,

I stumbled across this on page 127 of "Backup, Recovery, and Media Services
for i"

"A backup control group with the *SAVSYS special value must specify *NO in
the Shared media field of the media class."

The media class I use is ULTRIUM2, which has Shared media *YES. Is this
telling me the backups I have been doing for 7+ years with BRMS are not
usable to recover the system?

The tape drives are 3581-028 used in library mode.

Thanks.


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www.dilgardfoods.com

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