>vstore
VSTORE

     Verifies that the data on a backup media are valid (for example,
     there are no media errors), and reports errors incurred by STORE
     when writing the tape.

SYNTAX

     VSTORE [vstorefile][;filesetlist][;option[;...]]

     where option is

        [;SHOW[=showparmlist]]

        [;ONERR[OR]={QUIT}]
                    {SKIP}

        [;DIRECTORY]

        [;COPYACD] [;NOACD]
        [;TREE] [;NOTREE]
        [;NODECOMPRESS]

(24/31) Continue?
        ** TurboSTORE products only:

        [;RESTORESET=(device[,...])[,(device[,...])[,...]]]

        [;MOSET=(ldev[,...])[,(ldev[,...])[,...]]]
        [;NAME=backupname]


KEYWORDS: PARMS,OPERATION,EXAMPLE

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> From: Backuj <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: DDS Verify
> Date: 97/10/09 12:32 PM
>
>      Does anybody know of a utility that would allow us to verify a
> TurboStore Backup made on a DDS-1 tape drive?  We do our backups nightly
but
> frequently we need to do restores to another HP3000 for various reasons.
>  Unfortunately we get a lot of "media read errors".  The backups are
being
> produced from several different HP3000(s), so one would think that it's
not
> the tape drives making the backup.  We get the errors from several
different
> tape drives (on several different HP3000(s)), so one would think that
it's
> not the tape drives reading the backup.  We clean the tape heads
frequently,
> as in every day or two and we are using brand new "out of the box" tapes.
>
> Thanx,
>     Jon Backus
>     HP Systems Manager
>     AB&C Group