Ah.
This is a blow.
The obvious next question is "What can I use to make sure that my tapes are
usable? ". Considering that one day, we will have terrabytes worth of tape
archives, here, we can not really play at a game of moving data and locking
multiple drives every time that a problem is reported on a drive or media, just
to make sure that we have not loss anything.
On good old MVS, I had 3rd party products like FATS/FATAR that allowed me to
make a tape scan and possibly recover some data out of damaged volumes.
Is anybody aware of something comparable on AIX platforms, especially for
magstar medias?
(Software producers, there is a market here! )
Cheers.
On Aug 20, 2:54pm, Paul Zarnowski wrote:
<=> Subject: Re: Does audit actually check data integrity?
<=>No, an audit does not guarantee integrity of the data stored on a tape.
<=>I also had this misconception. An audit validates file information stored
<=>in the database with that stored on the tape. It does not actually check
<=>to see that the file data itself is readable and correct. We discovered
<=>this when an audit volume revealed no problems, yet a move data failed.
<=>..Paul
<=>--
<=>On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:44:46 -0400 Tim Dobrowolsky said:
<=>>When an Audit is performed on a tape volume, what exactly does ADSM check?
<=>>Does it just check
<=>>to see if it can find the stored file, or is there a checksum stored in the
<=>>database that is
<=>>checked against the tape file? What I'm really wondering is whether a
<=>>successful audit guarantees
<=>>the integrity of the data stored on a tape. Thanks.
<=>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<=>>> Tim Dobrowolsky > < yksloworboD miT <
<=>>> Computer Services > < secivreS retupmoC <
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<=>>> tim AT catrs.cat.cc.md DOT us > <
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<=>>> 410-455-4562 > < 2654-554-014 <
<=>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<=> End of excerpt from Paul Zarnowski
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