-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ? []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGC7SppdyWzQ5b5ckRAj+vAJ9/O2NR84c8En1c6H3iiobT8qWZ5gCeLvxu ZR3D/H0km038GuVbd+dFLM8= =pOz3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----