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AMVERIFY(8)							   AMVERIFY(8)

NAME
       amverify - check an Amanda tape for errors

SYNOPSIS
       amverify config [slot [runtapes]]

DESCRIPTION
       Amverify reads an Amanda format tape and makes sure each backup image
       can be processed by amrestore and, if possible, the appropriate restore
       program (e.g.  tar).

       Amverify runs amrestore on each file of the tape and pipes the output
       to a restore program (if available) with an option to create a
       catalogue of the backup. The catalogue itself is discarded. Only the
       success or failure of the operation itself is reported.

       If the backup image cannot be processed by the restore program, e.g. if
       it was written on a different operating system, the image is sent
       through dd to /dev/null. This still determines if the tape is readable,
       but does not do any internal consistency check on the image.

       If config is set up to use a tape changer, the slot argument may be
       used to choose the first tape to process. Otherwise, the current slot
       is used.

       The runtapes configuration parameter determines how many tapes are
       processed unless it is specified on the command line.

       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

AUTHOR
       Axel Zinser <fifi@icem.de> : Original text

       Stefan G. Weichinger, <sgw@amanda.org>, maintainer of the
       Amanda-documentation: XML-conversion

SEE ALSO
       amrestore(8), amanda(8), amverifyrun(8)

				  06/06/2007			   AMVERIFY(8)

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