Section 13.5. Verifying a mksysb or savevg Backup


13.5. Verifying a mksysb or savevg Backup

Now that you have a backup on tape or disk, you may want to verify the contents of the backup. The most thorough test of a mksysb tape is to actually do a restore, but you can get an idea of the integrity of the tape by listing the contents of the archive. If it's a tape, make sure the tape is at the beginning first:

# mt -f device rewind

Next, use restore to list the contents of the tape or file:

# restore -s4 -Tvf [no-rewind-device|filename]

This shows you all the files that were backed up, the time and date that the backup was run, and how many files were backed up.




Backup & Recovery
Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
ISBN: 0596102461
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 237

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