[BackupPC-users] Extracting Checksums from Backuppc Quickly?

2012-03-01 Thread Kyle Anderson
List, To do audits, I like to get checksums from files and compare them to make sure that I have files backed up properly. I've done cli restores piped to md5sums and simply md5sum'ing files using the fuse filesystem. Both methods are ok But I feel like I'm taking the long way around. Backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Extracting Checksums from Backuppc Quickly?

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
See the archives or the Wikki - I have written routines that check the embedded md4sum checksums (available with rsync transfer method after the second time a file is backed up) against the file contents. This checks integrity. I have also written a routine that adds the md4 checksum to files

Re: [BackupPC-users] Extracting Checksums from Backuppc Quickly?

2012-03-01 Thread Kyle Anderson
On 03/01/2012 10:59 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Kyle Anderson anderso...@ornl.gov wrote: List, To do audits, I like to get checksums from files and compare them to make sure that I have files backed up properly. I've done cli restores piped to md5sums and simply

Re: [BackupPC-users] Extracting Checksums from Backuppc Quickly?

2012-03-01 Thread Kyle Anderson
I have BackupPC_digestVerify.pl, but I don't understand if this can do what I'm asking. This tool looks like it adds and verifies the sums like you say, but can it actually tell me what the sum is from a known filename? Also I looks like the filename it wants might be the cpool filename, is that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Extracting Checksums from Backuppc Quickly?

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Kyle Anderson wrote at about 11:10:26 -0500 on Thursday, March 1, 2012: I have BackupPC_digestVerify.pl, but I don't understand if this can do what I'm asking. This tool looks like it adds and verifies the sums like you say, but can it actually tell me what the sum is from a known