Backup Solutions

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Alex Maynard wrote:

> A back up to a disk or another computer is easily verified by looking at the 
> files, especially if no compression is used. Is it equally easy to verify 
> that the files are there on the tape backup or do you need to do
> something like a test restore to double check?  This is something I was never 
> sure about.

Testing file restoration from tape is not[1] any more difficult than 
testing restoration from disk based backups.  This is Unix so (almost) 
everything is a file :)

[1] You'll probably need to get used to the mt & mtx commands but that is 
important anyway if you are using tapes.

I agree with Neil's comments on "fire drills" too.

Cheers,

Rob

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