6 Feb
2007
6 Feb
'07
5:42 p.m.
On 6 Feb 2007 at 10:38, Jules Richardson wrote:
Back when we were in the data forensics racket, the business of "Does
a separate verify pass do any good with DLT/DAT/8mm media,
considering that the recording process is read-write-verify-erase-if-
error-and-retry (this is what you pay the bucks for on these
drives)"?
We rewound and checked the VTOC at the beginning of the tape because
doing so would often turn up SCSI data transfer problems, but found
it unnecessary to provide an automatic separate verify pass. We did
provide a manual verification option, however.
Cheers,
Chuck
Its
verification is practically a non-feature. Always generate parity
or make redundant copies.
Yep, that was my thinking too. I really need to find the time to write a Linux
util to suck tar data off DLT and checksum file-by-file to test backups;
currently I restore the whole archive and then use find/cksum/diff to check
against source data, but it's annoying needing that extra disk capacity just
for the sake of backup testing.