> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ungaro, Matt [mailto:mjungaro AT capitolindemnity DOT com] 
> Sent: March 30, 2005 11:10 AM
> To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backup Audit script...
> 
> 
> Paul,
>       Even that's not enough. Sadly. The best test of completeness of
> backups is to perform recovery on randomized sets of Data. 

That's already done.
But random isn't sufficient. :o|


> on a quarterly basis attempt to do a full system
> restore from a randomly picked set of backups. It's a total 
> pain, but it's
> really the only way to find out if your backups are usable.

I agree that is necessary....we do that on a formal basis, and more
often on an informal basis, but this "issue" we had got blown a little
out of proportion, so we're being asked to provide MORE assurance.

Paul