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On 05/12/14 19:20, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 12/05/2014 07:48 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> The purpose of such a checksum wouldn't be to prove that the >> tapes are correct, it would simply be to catch any failure of the >> spool disk at the earliest opportunity > > Monitoring your hardware is not bacula's job. Appropriate tools for > this particular job include smartctl, fsck, and checksumming > filesystems. > Quite a number of applications keep checksums within their own file formats. gzip is one of them, while tar is not. A tgz file is therefore more secure than a tar file alone. smartctl and fsck will not always know if bits are written incorrectly within the data of a file. fsck will only notice if the corruption has occurred in the filesystem metadata but not in the file content. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUggEFAAoJEGxlgOd711bEP+4P/2hna4NByzIwrl3zJWkS+QZQ KFcT3YmbpfQdUdpPyOqSPVaph9VCN29dGz5dBwRhrMsX2mmTlw/1b3QwatV4kmMz 135lnNq+Ylb7/IRqqzqSy5S7aftIgWIie7X+wFru0Us70WfaxB6r+Ne1qHoKWZbR aK4FhNDkP/9GZwHEbwrWMP0z2lw79h0uf5VACfA4hJ7fW3fAlc35jcccEsy/QpMJ T6dww9sug0LJR5jxdcMUiu7k9OO5ulryyZsbSfJjlycrkBQeeUWR9HP5SBpz1LBi nqxw+6xalBUS7dQ9nCxx+jrQlID0aGWLFrMLRm6pqeT0Y22kCA9HzsYxs9o7sfC/ mC5KwJzOHWqiIBRs8xBWeH8lRqthGd3COum1orsy1PGMFkh0z3biWPbNW6G1dU3q 3/9+6/5uY8iZyvuFoO5AX7EqezXBuftFm2uv9aKkvVEeG7wJQ3qAGrVOI1oFdAOU ypcMMe7wUgZtvIEyO3aZu5AryiNf5ll/WGyOVbJ6LVNNI0obb7dtAA0j5ziqBBjA 7AHenMC/nUtYL9HyjdR/spbjNDU3PD2J0XzIW+7pDvmerYM6U8pET9BiUQDoZcFy oIfEiFCsYyh0ZGvS61/hqoTcXzOgwreSu9E1vL0sTnXtBuWTvc7FQFiD4JEq52yl PAAmSsIVY7AKXdq1zOFV =bgit -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users