Do I need to run a verfication on LTO tape backups even though the drives themselves perform verification as they write?
- by ObligatoryMoniker
We have an LTO-3 Tape drive in a Dell media library that we use for our tape backups. The article about LTO on Wikipedia states that:
LTO uses an automatic verify-after-write technology to immediately check the data as it is being written, but some backup systems explicitly perform a completely separate tape reading operation to verify the tape…