I wrote the attached script to automate testing the complete fidelity of BackupPC backups... so that I could test the round-trip of dump & restore as broadly, easily, and accurately as possible
In my case, since I use btrfs snapshots for the source of my backups, I am able to ensure that the source is unchanged allowing for full compare of restores against the original source. Working with Craig, this has uncovered several bugs in acl's and xatrributes... but now I am able to get 100% accurate backups against 'rsync -niacXAH --delete' -- which is about as close at it gets :) The attached BASH script automates the restore and compare process including retrieving the appropriate shares, merges, compression levels, etc. needed to execute the compare. I should have written it in perl but it started as just a series of CLI commands that kept growing until they became a program... This script should allow others to validate their own rsync backups both for their own sake as well as to identify other bugs that may still persist. Enjoy and please report back any errors in either this script or BackupPC...
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Best, Jeff
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