If you use bpverify, it reads the media and compares the contents of the 
media to the catalog.

It does not verify the data itself, only the contents of the catalog as 
you said.

I have seen restores fail and bpverify says the tape is ok.

Justin.

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jim H wrote:

>
> If you use bpverify, it reads the media and compares the contents of the 
> media to the catalog.
>
> It is faster than a restore but Ed is right, it will not tell you if you are 
> backing up the right things.
>
> It should not be affected by changing files on the client though.
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