Lately, with the advent of some network viruses, I've had backups not occur when I run amcheck before running amdump. My script, which is run from crontab, checks to see if amcheck ran successfully before I allow amdump to run. I'm using samba to back up Windows servers across the network to my Sun server. Is there any good reason to have this type of procedure in place where amcheck must be successful before running amdump?
Also, I don't run amverify either because I lack the time during the backup window for this. I'm not sure this is necessary either. What is amverify really checking? I don't think it checks what was dumped on tape vs what is on the disk. Is it necessary to make sure you really have a valid backup? Bob... -- Robert Zahn UNIX Systems Administrator Oklahoma City Community College 7777 S. May Avenue Oklahoma City, Ok 73159 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
