[Info-vax] DECnet bashing

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-08-09, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> You're right.  I should always do a verify pass.  Going disk to disk has 
> me somewhat spoiled.
>

Yes. When you don't see regular failures you can become complacent until
you find out the hard way one day that your backups have been silently
corrupted due to some disk, network, controller or even operating system
level problem.

I regard an unverified backup as a useless backup for this reason.

Simon.

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