Patent ID: 8843787

Claim:
A system for archive verification, comprising: a library including a plurality of drives and a plurality of media coupled to a network; a monitoring appliance coupled to the network and configured to: monitor the media library during non-verification operation and store a set of collected data, the set of collected data comprising a first set of error data; maintain a set of verification policies; evaluate the first set of error data according to the set of verification policies to determine a set of media to be verified; perform a verification on at least one of the set of media, where performing the verification comprises: determining that a first drive of the library is available; verifying a first media of the set of media using the first drive; obtaining verification data associated with the verification of the first media in the first drive, the verification data comprising a second set of error data generated by the first drive when executing a verification command to determine the readability of data on the first media by the first drive; and determining a result for the verification of the first media based on the verification data.