Immediate Verify

[kaisa]

Hi,

 

I have been using Retrospect for years but still am angry about some things:

 

give an option to run verify of a media directly after it has been written to. So I minimize the use of a DJ (Disc Jockey) how often has to change media.

 

So backup on 3 media (discs or tapes) would be

 

1 write - verifty

2 write - verifty

3 write - verifty

 

instead of

1

2

3

1

2

3

[jch]

Here here!

 

This is a great idea. I know I've read the official explanation about why it's done the way it currently is (to handle a file spanning the end of a media)...

 

But, if you want to be *user-centric* this revised approach would make a lot of sense:

• Put in a tape
• back-up
• verify
• insert new tape
• back-up
• verify
• etc.

 

Yes, it would involve re-jigging the logic of the program to be media-centric, rather than volume-centric.

 

But, boy, would it make me recommend your product to a lot more people. Currently, it's just too clunky for multi-tape backups.

 

Hope this helps,

.../j