Verify a backup, Selecting the data to verify – Storix Software SBAdmin TSM Edition Users Guide User Manual
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17. Verify a Backup
After a backup job has complete, it is often a good precaution to verify the backup to ensure the data on the
backup media is complete and readable. The verify process reads all of the data on the backups and verifies it
is in the correct format. The backup job may have included multiple clients.
If you selected to automatically
Verify Backups When Complete
within the
, then the
backup data was verified at that time, and it is generally not necessary to verify again. However, if you do not
auto-verify as part of the backup process, you may do so at a later time by following the steps in this section.
Selecting The Data to Verify
To verify a backup job, perform the following steps:
1. Select
Actions
!Verify Backup Jobs
from the menu bar. A window similar to the following will appear:
2. Use the arrow button to select a
Server name. If you want to verify a backup performed to a client’s
local tape drive, select the “local (client tape)” option at the top of the list. In this case, the
Original
Client (owner) field will change to Client Name, and a new field, Device Name will appear.
3. If you selected a TSM Server, use the arrow button to select the
Original Client (owner). All backups
are stored on the server in a TSM filespace specific to each client, so you must therefore know the
original client (node) the backup was created for. In this case, any client that was part of the backup job
to be verified will be sufficient, since we need to list the Backup IDs which that client is part of.
4. If
you
selected
local (client tape) in the
Server name field, you must select the Client Name and the
Device Name (SBTAPE) from which to read the backup in the fields provided.
5. Press
the
Select
button next to the
Backup ID field. You will be provided a list of backup jobs on the
server in which the client is included, similar to the following example:
Storix System Backup Administrator
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