Re: Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-06 Thread Michael
On 2014-12-05, at 10:50 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: So, you want a list of files that have already been backed up, that haven't changed on the filesystem, so you can verify that the data has been correctly

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-06 Thread Arno Hautala
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: ZFS's checksums can tell me Hey, the data you tried to read is no good. I want to know that before I need to restore from backup. That's what a scrub is for. And verifying the backup against the current state. Things get

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-05 Thread Michael
On 2014-12-04, at 8:06 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like a way to verify a time machine backup. If Time Machine completed without an error, it’s verified. That is just silly. 1. Any program can have bugs. Time

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-05 Thread LuKreme
On Dec 5, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-12-04, at 8:06 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like a way to verify a time machine backup. If Time Machine completed without an error,

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-05 Thread Arno Hautala
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-12-04, at 11:47 AM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: The tl;dr for this that tmutil might provide some of what you're looking for, but if you don't trust TimeMachine, you should use a different backup tool. It

Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-04 Thread Michael
I'd like a way to verify a time machine backup. What I envision: 1. A tool to list which files on the backup do not need to be backed up -- in other words, the list of files that time machine think are worth backing up but can be skipped. These can then be sent to a diff-tool to verify that

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-04 Thread Arno Hautala
The tl;dr for this that tmutil might provide some of what you're looking for, but if you don't trust TimeMachine, you should use a different backup tool. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: What I envision: 1. A tool to list which files on the backup do not need

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

2014-12-04 Thread LuKreme
On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like a way to verify a time machine backup. If Time Machine completed without an error, it’s verified. What I envision: 1. A tool to list which files on the backup do not need to be backed up -- in other words, the list