I’m fine with both action items. I back up millions of emails and so far the restores I’ve performed have never been an issue.
mph > On Jun 8, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Jeff & Guillermo, > > Agreed - it's better to scan small subsets of the pool. I'll add that to > BackupPC_refCountUpdate (which does the nightly pool scanning to delete > unused files and update stats). > > Craig > >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 2:35 PM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: >> Guillermo Rozas wrote at about 16:41:03 -0300 on Monday, June 8, 2020: >> > > While it's helpful to check the pool, it isn't obvious how to fix any >> errors. >> > >> > Sure. Actually I've put aside to interpret the error and the file >> > involved until I find an actual error (so I hope to never need that >> > information! :) ) >> > >> > > So it's probably best to have rsync-bpc implement the old >> $Conf{RsyncCsumCacheVerifyProb} setting. It could do that by randomly >> skipping the --checksum short-circuit during a full. For that fraction of >> files, it would do a full rsync check and update, which would update the >> pool file if they are not identical. >> > >> > That would be a good compromise. It makes the fulls a bit slower in >> > servers with poor network and slow disks, but it's more clear what to >> > do in case of error. Maybe also add a "warning of possible pool >> > corruption" if the stored checksum and the new checksum differs for >> > those files? >> > >> >> The only problem with this approach is that it never revisits pool >> files that aren't part of new backups. >> >> That is why I suggested a nightly troll through the cpool/pool to >> check md5sums going sequentially through X% each night... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/
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