David writes:
> I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a
> new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the
> cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar, which seems to be preserving the
> hard links (in doing so it's chewing up VAST amounts of memory on the
> 'create' side, something like 2.5gb of ram for a 250GB pool!). Once I
> get it, I'd like to verify the MD5 sums of the cpool to make sure that
> the files got transferred ok. In fact, I expect there to be some
> problems because the disk began to get some I/O errors.
>
> Is there a BackupPC_verify perl script anywhere?
Holger sent a great reply.
BackupPC will compare incoming files with the pool during a full.
For rsync with checksum caching, it will match an indentical file by
using the cached rsync block checksums. It will verify a fraction of
the cached checksums based on $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb}.
Craig
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