Vetch wrote: > > Ok - I tried direct restores back into the original directories over the > network - and it came up with successful restores for all the home > directories... > Does this mean that the data has been fully successfully restored?
Probably. But as I said, BackupPC didn't check file consistency. > I think I have about 1000 files missing (out of about 35000)... You think? Do you really miss one of this 1000 files? > Now, this wouldn't be the end of the world, but I'd be interested to know > if when it reports success, it has definitely brought back the entire > dataset... Yes. But possible not all the files YOU expected in the backup dataset. > ... and if so... do you have any suggestions as to why I may have > different numbers of files? > How do you measure the file counts? > I've just tried this - I booted to a live CD and e2fsck-ed the device... > On first scan, it reported clean... I'm now running a e2fsck -f to force > it to check, but assuming that it reports the device as clean, then can I > assume that the backups are not corrupted? Yes! > In which case, I have to wonder about the missing files... > Am I just worrying unneccessarily? > Probably. We didn't know yet if really files are missing or if your measurement is wrong. br Matthias -- Don't Panic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
