Re: test, test, test
Ok. So you do the backup to a tape it does not matter DC300 or DLT of one on many thing that existed in between. The. You do a verify and compare and check the logs for file count, blocks written, errors reported and all is good.
How can you be certain that the tape will still be readable and not damaged on the last rewind ? Tapes are fickle things.
I did this for 35 years. First as the ‘oik’ and the only one who understood the computer and finally as IT Director with a staff and distributed systems all over London. Despite test restores and occasional disk failures it was always a clenching moment when someone called ‘Let’s restore it from tape’.And. that is without the random variations that an Exchange Server restore might add.
God Bless HP NAS,s VMWARE and Veam of blessed memory. We all slept better when that came along.