Automated Backups

[Alex Patel]

How do we verify whether the automated backups are appending the tape and not
over writing the backups done during the previous days?

[Paul Heffels_1]

The depends of course on the backup utility you use. For fbackup for instance
you could write a script that reads the header of the tape (frecover -V
filename) and check the contents of the fields in "filename".

[Ralf Hildebrandt_1]

You could try and attempt a restore!
You wouldn't believe how many backup are empty and/or unusable...