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Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Backup and Recovery


From time to time you might experience backup failures. It is vitally important that you determine the cause of the failure. Most often, the failure is due to worn or faulty media. Proceeding without determining the cause of a failure makes all your future backups suspect and defeats the purpose of backups.

This chapter contains the following sections:


Unreadable Backups
Reading Media From Other Systems
Errors Creating the Backup
Restoring the Wrong Backup
Testing for Bad Media
Backup and Recovery Error Messages

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