If it is an auditor that is requesting this information, most likely they 
want to see that you are able to restore data from the backups, and that 
the recovered data is actually useful from a business perspective.

There is no tool for doing that other than doing a couple of restores 
yourself and testing your data, because it depends on all the applications 
you are running at your organization and how detailed you were with your 
analysis of the data to be backed up and your plan to restore.

In BareOS, there are some things you can do, like 
this: https://docs.bareos.org/Appendix/VerifyFileIntegrityWithBareos.html 
and 
https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Job_VerifyJob 
but that compares the files you specified in your backup. It does not mean 
that the data is useful, from the auditor's perspective.

Good luck.
On Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 9:47:22 PM UTC+2 Riot Nrrrd™ wrote:

> Hello,
>
> At my work we were recently written up by auditors because even though we 
> have Bareos backing up our systems, we had no proof of the "validity and 
> reliability of the [Bareos] backups".
>
> Does Bareos have any built-in checks to verify the validity and 
> reliability of the on-disk backups it creates, that I could use as ammo 
> against these auditors and their evaluation?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

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