Verify not needed when using LTO

[ethos]

Hi guys

Just wanted to confirm that there is no need to verify the tape within backup exec (10d) when using LTO (we have drives that are LTO1 and 2) as LTO automatically does this when data is written.

It's adding a good 2-3 hours to our overall backup time.

LTO uses an automatic verify-after-write technology to immediately check the data as it is being written, but some backup systems explicitly perform a completely separate tape reading operation to verify the tape was written correctly. This separate verify operation doubles the number of end-to-end passes for each scheduled backup, and reduces the tape life by half.

Am I correct?