Arcserve verify - yes or no?

[rabowsm1]

We currently use the scan option verify on our Arcserve 2000 backups. We are a pretty large company and as you all probably know you have to work with tight schedules in which you can do your 'backup thing'.
However, lately we cannot manage to get the backup and verify done within the set time frame. I have 5 1/2 hours to do the backup and some servers already need like 7 hours to do the backup.
So we decided we might lose the verify and do without. I was asked to see what consequences are.
My question here is: do I really need the verify. And I mean REALLY need. Or can I do without and still do restores, disaster recoveries and what not?

Regards
Maurits

 

[TheLad]

We're a big company here and we cannot fit a verification into the backup window so we don't bother. There is the option to verify the first 10Mb if you still want some sort of verification that the data has (started to be) written to tape

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[rabowsm1]

We also thought up an alternative with flag files placed at speficic locations on the filesystem and than do a backup without verify. After the job is completed we then start a Perl script which scans for these flag files to see if they are backed up properly.