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After you've completed a backup for your Sales server to disk...

After you've completed a backup for your Sales server to disk, you want to be sure that this backup is intact and able to be used for restores before writing it to tape. What command will help you here?

Answer
RESTORE VERIFYONLY

Explanation
After a backup file has been written to disk or tape, its integrity can be checked with the RESTORE VERIFYONLY command. This command will verufy the backup set is complete and that the files are readable.

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