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Liffeyman's avatar
Liffeyman
Level 3
9 years ago

Completing integrity on tapes

Folks, Im new to NBU and need to complete monthly integrity tests from the tapes to confirm that data is recoverable. When I go into Backup, Archive, and Restore and I can complete the restore ...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    9 years ago

    It depends on which of the 3 methods in TECH64592  you have used.

    If you do not want to promote tape copies to primary permanently, do not use point 2 in the TN.

    If you decide to use option 1 to specify the copy number with bprestore command, there is nothing to do afterwards.

    If you create the ALT_RESTORE_COPY_NUMBER 'touchfile' in step 3, remember to delete the file once test restores are done.

Liffeyman's avatar
Liffeyman
Level 3
9 years ago

Hi Marianne,

Thanks so much for your fast response, I realize that its done by the Client name, rather then the media ID. But what im trying to achieve/prove, is that the media selected when restoring the file is in-fact coming from a tape backup, rather then disk.

Is there a way to force NBU to recover the file/s from a tape in the Backup, Archive, and Restore application. Or am i looking in the wrong place

Many thanks

Paul