> I had a few questions on the "Auto media verify" option under the pools
> window.
>
> 1. Does enabling this option actually accomplish any validity checking?
> I remember a few people in the past remarking that it was really more of
> a waiving of the vermouth and didn't amount to much.

It does for a particular thing (checking that the last data in a session
or on a volume was saved to tape properly).  It is not full-on recover
checking.  Do a clone if you want that.

> 2. What, if any mminfo attribute is this associated with?

Is what associated with?  AMV isn't associated with data, its an action
performed on data, so it's not stored in the media database.

> 3. If a savegroup notification indicates one or more savesets without
> the preceding 'V', should you re-run them? How much credence can you
> place in the presence of the 'V'.

I think the V just says that the session was "validated".  If it had
failed the validation, then it would have failed on the whole and you'd
get an error.

> 4. Clearly, the presence of the 'V' is a good thing, but certainly no
> guarantee as we found out recently wherein a saveset was reported with
> the 'V' but was actually 'suspect'.

Correct.  Truly nothing can be a guarantee, as tapes do go bad after the
save is done from time to time.

> We do occasionally see savesets reported without the 'V'. Most of time,
> they're there but not always. I'm unclear of what the absence of the 'V'
> means, and what, if any action I should take? Maybe check the clflags
> value for presence of 's' (suspect), or maybe I should check this value
> for all savesets regardless and just ignore the 'V' thing all together?

I would think a no 'V' saveset was in a non validated pool, but you said
all your pools are set that way, so I'm not certain.

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