Is verify required these days?
I'm backing up several VM's to a dedupe store on a Qnap NAS box and am getting around 2GB/min throughput. The backup jobs themselves are pretty quick, but the verify takes just as long again.
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Verbatim ~ explanation of verify operation -
During a verify job operation, Backup Exec reads the data stream and re-calculates the check sums and compares it with what is written in the media.
Backup Exec does not compare the files on the tape or backup to disk folder with the files on the hard disk. Instead, it performs a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) verification of the data on the backup media. A CRC performs a mathematical calculation on a stream of data and returns a number that represents the content and organization of that data and uniquely identifies this data stream. This CRC verification ensures the data was stored correctly and can be re-read.This applies ir-respective of backing up to tape or disk.
