On 17/06/2010 17:26, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Jonathan Schaeffer wrote at about 16:29:19 +0200 on Thursday, June 17, 2010:
> > Is there a checking mechanism to ensure the integrity of the restored > files ? > > i.e. the server can check that the files he is about to restore is the > same as > > the one he stored previously ? > > > > Not automatically or officially. Though it might be a good feature to > add in the future. > > If you use rsync checksum caching, I have written a routine that > allows to check some or all pool or pc files for consistency between > the full file md4 checksum stored by rsync and the actual file > content. > > One could also do other checks such as checking the pool file name > against its contents using the partial file md5sum that backuppc > uses. One could also check the file size stored in the attrib file > against the actual size. Thanks for the quick and helpfull answer. This is great. I'll give it a try. This could be coupled with Nagios to report any anomality. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ 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/
