Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-27 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Stroller wrote: Of course, this does not detect a succesful, but somehow corrupted, copy (which should be exceptionally rare, anyway). Well perhaps I'm just being paranoid today. But how do I know that a successful, but somehow corrupted, copy has not

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Stroller wrote: I've done this loads in the past, and never been aware of any file corruption, but I guess I'm just paranoid today. Perhaps I shouldn't use the -v flags during my copy - it's reassuring to see the

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 24 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Christopher Copeland wrote: On 24 Feb 2008, at 06:06, Stroller wrote: So my question is: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-26 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 26 Feb 2008, at 19:51, Stroller wrote: Thanks. I think this has been suggested before for my backups - IIRC it has a useful --ignore-path or --exclude-path command which can insure you all the users' Documents Settings, without the useless temp Temporary Internet Files. rsync

[gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I'm in the habit of backing up customer data by booting from knoppix, connecting a portable hard-drive and copying with `cp -rvf`. When this has finished I connect the portable hard-drive to my desktop machine, copy the directory of data from it to my homedir, and make a zip

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Stroller wrote: I've done this loads in the past, and never been aware of any file corruption, but I guess I'm just paranoid today. Perhaps I shouldn't use the -v flags during my copy - it's reassuring to see the files being copied, but what if I overlooked a bunch

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. Diff? diff -r

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
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Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! === On Sunday 24 February 2008, you wrote: === ... On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread cabbage
diff can use for binary files ? On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +, Stroller wrote: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-24 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 24 Feb 2008, at 06:06, Stroller wrote: So my question is: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. I use