Hi Arjen,
backup verification indeed is one, in fact the original purpose of the archecker utility (even though it nowadays looks to be going by "table level restore utility"), and it still would the utility of choice for ontape backups (while 'onbar -v' would be what you'd use for onbar backups - which in turn would again invoke archecker under the hood.)
On the question of L 0|1|2 backup verification: only L 0 backups contain what's required to conduct verification, so an ontape L 1 backup alone would be nothing archecker could work with (and there's no way to combine L 0|1|2 backups to a workable entity.)
I'm not sure 'onbar -v' would be smarter, but would assume it is not.
HTH,
Andreas
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Andreas Legner
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon April 12, 2021 05:02 AM
From: Arjen Van Drie
Subject: archecker utility on ontape level 1 archive
Hello Gaurav,
I am not restoring; I am using archecker to verify the integrity of a backup archive, which is, as far as I understood, one of archecker's purposes.
Best,
Arjen.
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Arjen Van Drie
Original Message:
Sent: Fri April 09, 2021 07:48 AM
From: Arjen Van Drie
Subject: archecker utility on ontape level 1 archive
Hi,
when I run the archecker utility on a level 0 archive taken with ontape, it runs fine and gives me PASSED and exits 0.
When I run it on a subsequent level 1 archive, I get numerous errors. Should archecker also work on level 1 backups?
Upon request I can paste the archecker output.
Thanks and best regards,
Arjen Van Drie.
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Arjen Van Drie
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