server tape restoration testing

["Youngquist, Jason R." <jryoungquist () CCIS EDU>]

We had an audit done awhile back, and one of their recommendations was "tape restoration procedure - yearly testing 
should be done on production servers."  We do a couple restores on files which people accidently delete during the 
month, but since we got our new tape backup system (~1 year ago) we haven't had the need to do a complete server 
restore from tape.  A number of our servers are VMware virtual servers, but we also have some "bare metal" servers as 
well.  We have 100+ servers, and I'd be interested what other schools do to test tape restoration for complete server 
restores.
Please email me off list, and I will summarize.
Jason Youngquist
Information Technology Security Engineer, Security+
Technology Services
Columbia College
1001 Rogers Street, Columbia, MO  65216
(573) 875-7334
jryoungquist () ccis edu
http://www.ccis.edu