On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Paul, Jolinda D. wrote:

> 
> Does anyone out there run verify jobs on their backups when completed?  A
> Veritas consultant was here recently and stated that he had never been to a
> client that performed verifies of their backups.  Looking for other
> opinions...thanks.
> 
We run a verify on our backups every morning after they are completed.
As to whether that is a reasonable indicator of our ability to rely
on them remains to be seen, but we haven't run into any problems
with a verified backup yet.

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Casey Feskens <cfeskens AT willamette DOT edu>
System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
Willamette University, Salem, OR
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