Thanks Dan. On 11/03/2011, at 4:43 AM, Dan Shoop wrote:
>> It would be nice to be able to compare these partitions (either both new >> ones or either new one and the old problematic one) and get some sort of >> summary of differences (specifically with regards to data differences, not >> storage mechanism differences). > > This is what Backup Bouncer does. It compares source and target copies after > "backup" or "clone" operations and I got the impression it was more to test backup tools rather than really provide a useful report on large file sets. How would it handle millions of files, can it summarise the results or would it produce a huge amount of output? I'll give it a go and see ... > As for using hfsdebug, especially the original tool, it's not been updated > for some time and isn't accurately reporting some things that are going on in > OS X 10.6. That's not to say it's not working, it just isn't aware to report > accordingly. I noted that and its replacement fileXray but I think Backup Bouncer may be more appropriate, or at least heading in the right direction, for my needs. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
