Verify Your Data on Media

Arcserve Backup enables you to verify that your data was correctly backed up to media. You can verify the data for the entire backup job, or for a selected drive that is included in your backup job. The global verification options (applied to the entire job) are overridden by the options selected for a drive.

To verify the data for selected drive:

1. Select the Source tab.
2. Right-click the drive.

   The Source Context menu opens.

3. Choose Option from the Source Context menu.

   The Local Option dialog opens.

4. Choose a verification option.

   The available verification options are described at the end of this topic.

5. Click OK.

   The specified options are applied only to the selected drive.

To verify data for the entire backup job:

1. Click Options.
2. Select the Verification tab in the Options dialog.
3. Choose a verification option.

   The available verification options are described at the end of this topic.

4. Click OK.

   Your backup job is stored with the specified Session password.

Available Verification Options

• None--The backup is not verified.
• Scan Backup Media Contents--Check the header of each file on the backup media. If the header is readable, Arcserve Backup assumes the data is reliable. If the header is not readable, the Activity Log is updated with this information. Of the two verification methods, this one is faster.
• Compare Backup Media to Disk--Read blocks of data from the media and compares the data, byte for byte, against the source files on the source machine. This option is more time consuming, but it ensures that all data on the media is exactly as it is on disk. If Arcserve Backup finds a mismatch, the Activity Log is updated with this information.

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Verifying Your Data on Media