RE: Used Backup Tape to Re-Load??

[Barb Anderson <bja9@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This question came up in Ohio last year when someone (sorry, drawing a 
blank on the unfortunate school) discovered that their backup tapes were 
less than complete also.  I called Innovative and asked if they could check 
mine.  They did and gave me a block size to gauge future backups by and 
assured me the backup was fine and dandy.

Barb

At 09:30 AM 10/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Karen,
>
>I'm glad that you posted your reply to the list as I'm sure that a few of us
>have had the same question -  "How do you know if your backup tapes would
>work if you needed them?"  We wondered the same thing after another system
>here crashed and it turned out that the backup tapes did not include all the
>information that the backup process indicated they had.
>
>At the time I discussed this question with an iii staff member. I came away
>somewhat reassured that if the tapes are verifying ok then they are all
>right. Thanks for sharing your successful experience of actually using the
>tapes to reload data. It's another measure of reassurance, although I
>sympathize with your difficulties and hope we never to have to use our
>carefully prepared tapes.
>
>Jan Meldrum
>Earth Sciences Information Centre / Centre d'information sur les sciences de
>la Terre
>Natural Resources Canada / Ressources naturelles Canada
>350 - 601 Booth St., Ottawa, ON  K1A 0E8
>janmeldr@xxxxxxxxxx
>Tel. (613) 996-0574; fax (613) 943-8742
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen Johnson [mailto:johnsonka@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: October 2, 2001 7:42 PM
>
>Unfortunately we found ourselves in the position where we had to reload
>from tape some partial data loss  as well as reload the entire database
>after system crashes. The good news is that in both incidents restoration
>of data from backup tapes worked.
>
>Karen
>
>At 04:23 PM 10/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I am interested in hearing from III libraries that have successfully used
> >your backup tape/s to restore your system.  What happened?  How smooth was
> >the re-load process?  How long did it take to be back in business?
> >
> >This question was prompted by some planning we're doing and a question
> >from a computer specialist asking, "How do you know if your backup tapes
> >would work if you needed them?"
>
> >Please respond to me directly, not to the list.  Thanks.
> >====================================================
> >Carol E. Eyler                ceyler@xxxxxxxxxx
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Barbara J. Anderson
Library Systems Specialist
Kelvin Smith Library
Case Western Reserve University
11055 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106-7151

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