Lately, with the advent of some network viruses, I've had backups not occur
when I run amcheck before running amdump. My script, which is run from
crontab, checks to see if amcheck ran successfully before I allow amdump to
run. I'm using samba to back up Windows servers across the network to my 
Sun server. Is there any good reason to have this type of procedure in 
place where amcheck must be successful before running amdump?

Also, I don't run amverify either because I lack the time during the backup
window for this. I'm not sure this is necessary either. What is amverify 
really checking? I don't think it checks what was dumped on tape vs what is
on the disk. Is it necessary to make sure  you really have a valid backup?

Bob...

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Robert Zahn     UNIX Systems Administrator
Oklahoma City Community College
7777 S. May Avenue
Oklahoma City, Ok 73159
bzahn AT zeus.okccc DOT edu    bzahn AT okccc DOT edu
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