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Verifying Backups
9 Verifying Backups
You can verify an existing backup in Nero BackItUp. Nero BackItUp verifies whether the
backup can be used to restore successfully. The data integrity is checked. The backup is
also checked against the source data. If you perform the verification immediately after the
backup and no data has changed in the meantime, you can use the function for data
verification.
To verify a backup, proceed as follows:
1. Click the Wizards menu icon.
Æ The Wizards screen appears.
2. Click the Verify Backup button.
Æ The Verify Wizard window opens and the welcome screen appears.
You can also start verification via the Wizards button followed by Verify.
3. Click the Next button.
Æ The Verify Settings screen appears.
4. Click the button.
Æ The Open Backup window opens.
5. the selection list or select a different backup using the option buttons Select a kup frombac
and the
button.
6.
Æ
n the Select any option to verify the backup area for file backups will be
7. up files with the CRC checksum of
8. erify whether files have been changed after the backup, select the Modified
9.
Æ If you selected a drive backup, the Select any option to verify the backup area for
11. you want to compare the original drive with the backup sector-by-sector, select the Sector
Click the OK button.
The Open Backup window is closed. The selected backup is transferred and the name
of the backup is shown in the Select Backup display panel. If you have selected a file
backup, the
available.
If you want to compare the CRC checksum of the backed
the original files, select the Verify by CRC option button.
If you want to v
option button.
If you want to verify wheth
er all files have been backed up, select the Verify by contents
option button.
drive backups will now be available.
10. If you want to compare the CRC checksum of the backed up drive with the CRC checksum
of the original drive, select the Verify by CRC option button.
If
by Sector option button.
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