RE: Used Backup Tape to Re-Load??

[Karen Johnson <johnsonka@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I should have added that we do full backups daily, including weekends.  The 
data that is lost are transactions that occur after the backup up to the 
downtime.  We lost some Circulation and Interlibrary Loan data during that 
window, but at least we are aware of that window when trying to resolve 
discrepancies.

Karen

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
>
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>tinfo/innopac

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