How can Verify a backup?

[xboot]

Hi there,

I'm looking for some tool wich could help me verifying the backup's.
I need to know if tape X from pool Y have made a good backup.
The "scanner" util only let me see from the device...so, if i have 3 pool's and in each one i have 4 tapes how can i verify the backup? "scanner" only let me verify the backup of a device or/and pool and i just want to verify a tape!

Best regards,

Ricardo F.

 

[BW78]

Check the point notifications.
You can create a notification thats send an e-mail to you, if a backup group fails.

For this option you will need a snmp mail programm like blat.exe (freeware)

Or create reprots with the mminfo command.

e.g.

mminfo -s %server% -av -t"one day ago" -r"savetime, volume, client, name, sumsize, level" -q"pool="%pool1%", pool="%pool2%", pool="%pool3%""

 

[xboot]

Thank you for the reply,

Well i implemented that already but it just send me an email with notification of the backup!
What i really want is DATA VERIFICATION to assure that all data is ok.Some kind of a report for each tape (not pool).

I hope somebody help me because i dont have any more ideas

Best regards,

ricardo F.

 

[ptwork]

So have you used the built in Auto Media Verification? Seems like it does what you want:

Auto Media Verification
If the Auto Media Verify attribute in the Pool resource is enabled, the
NetWorker server verifies data written to volumes from this pool by the
following methods:
• Data is verified by repositioning the volume to read a portion of the data
previously written to the media. The data read is compared to the original
data written. If the data read matches the data written, verification
succeeds; otherwise it fails.
• Media is verified whenever:
– A volume becomes full while saving and it becomes necessary to
continue on to another volume.
– A volume goes idle because all save sets being written to the volume
are complete.
When a volume fails verification, it is marked full so that the NetWorker server
will not select that volume for future saves. The volume remains full until it is
recycled or a user marks it not full. If a volume fails verification while the
NetWorker server is attempting to switch volumes, all save sets writing to the volume are terminated.

I don't think this ensures that all data is ok, but it does provide a higher level of certainty anyway. If you have tried this and this is not what you are looking for, perhaps you can elaborate.

Cheers
pt