Thats a good point, Les. I also thought that with backuppc 4.0 on the way,
I'd mention maybe having some test options within backuppc itself. I was
more thinking out loud, and this thread kind of gelled the need in my mind.
--b
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/4/11 3:56 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
> >> I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my
> >> part. However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request.
> >>
> >> I guess the best way to describe it would be a "dry run" restore mode.
> >> Something where I could run a full or partial restore and exercise
> >> the mechanism on the backuppc server, while not actually moving the
> >> files. Have it go through all the motions, including putting a list of
> >> files in the final report.
> >
> > That can be done now. Just add -n to RsyncRestoreArgs. Presumably
> > something similiar can be done for SMB, Tar, etc.
>
> It's probably even better to do a real test of the file content even if you
> just
> do a small random sampling. You can do a browser download of some
> subdirectory
> tree, restore it in a different place, then diff against the original - or
> you
> can use rsync with the -avn options to compare and list files with
> differences
> but not do a copy.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
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