Verifying All Backups

Backup verification is a process of checking the integrity of a backup by verifying its recovery points.

The Federated repository feature introduces enhanced backup integrity verification:

  • Performs comprehensive check of all recovery points within the repository

  • Validates metadata completeness

  • Ensures data integrity by comparing with checksums

For specific recovery points, the following verification tasks will be done:

  • Read timeline file:

    • Retrieves recovery point metadata from the timeline file

  • Metadata verification:

    • Validates the presence and currency of metadata files specified in the timeline file

    • Compares timestamps for accuracy

  • Incremental verification:

    • Searches for the parent FULL recovery point if the current recovery point is incremental

    • Validates the presence and correctness of parent recovery points, raw files, and metadata

  • Raw file and metadata presence check:

    • Ensures the existence and correctness of raw files and their backup metadata (headers and records).

To start backup verification, follow the steps below:

  1. In the main menu of NAKIVO Backup & Replication, click Settings.

  2. Go to the Repositories tab.

  3. Hover over a Federated repository.

  4. On the right side, click the ellipsis Manage button and then click Verify all backups.

    Note

    The backup verification process cannot be started if a backup job using this Federated repository as a target is running.

  5. To stop verification, hover over a federated repository, click the ellipsis Manage button and then click Stop backup verification.