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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:31:45AM -0000, Mark Schoonover wrote:
If you rely solely on your tape software verification to tell you your tapes are 100%, there will come a day, you'll be in for a surprise. The only 100% sure fire way to determine if your tapes are good is to actually restore from them back to a drive, and open them with the applications that created those files. Only after that kind of testing, can you be sure your tapes are good. I've had many tapes verified from the days of Arcserve, through Brightstor, Arkeia, CTAR and BRU. All of these backup software systems ran, and verified flawlessly, then a disaster struck only to find out my verified tapes actually had problems with them.
And how is that any different than any other media, including disks ?
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