On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 7:14:26 PM UTC-4, diamaunt wrote: > On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 12:43:51 PM UTC-5, Joe Nash wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Should I verify my LTO7 tapes after every job? > > > > I've got a single tape drive, no changer. > > > > When I archive data (ie, move data from disk to tape to free up disk space) > > I verify the tapes with both VolumeToCatalog and DiskToCatalog jobs. > > > > But what about regular incremental backups? Should I run both both verify > > jobs after EACH incremental backup? Is that standard practice? > > > > It's like 10TB of data and growing. > > > > It would save downtime to skip verifying tapes. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Thanks. > > Well.... LTO does a read after write of the data as it's being written, so in > *theory* it catches any errors on tape as they happen, and rewrites it.
Hmmm.. I've not used LTO a long time and fairly new to Bareos. I guess I'm concerned with corrupted volumes and the tape-fs ... Years ago (thankfully) I used Retropect for backups and sometimes volumes (on disk) would become corrupt. Those were proprietary volumes too. I'm new to LTO and Bareos, and I don't know if it's *overly* cautious to verify everything all the time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
