andersg98 makes me think you could do a proof of concept;
create a new job that does a COPY ONLY with verify backup to the network share;
set it to run 100 times or so, and report the % of failures for the backup after that;
if the failure rate is not zero, for me it's not an option.
then you could argue for more harddrive space a lot easier.
Lowell
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