[Info-vax] DECnet bashing

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rgrdjm$jt2$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > 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.

Many people test backups.  Few test restore.