Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread Dominic Raferd
listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: I'm not aware, so if I'm wrong perhaps someone could correct me, but I'd like a command to, in essence, do a comprehensive --verify-all-files-in-the-archive. [I'm pretty sure such a thing doesn't exist, at least I never saw it in the docs.] This would apply

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:00:48AM +, Dominic Raferd wrote: listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: I'm not aware, so if I'm wrong perhaps someone could correct me, but I'd like a command to, in essence, do a comprehensive --verify-all-files-in-the-archive. [I'm pretty sure such a thing

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread Gavin
Daniel Miller wrote: Why is the time needed to verify a three-month-old backup not leveling off? And is there a way to bring down my verification times but still be sure that my backup archives are not becoming corrupt due to decaying storage media, etc? Is there some other method of

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Miller
Gavin wrote: Daniel Miller wrote: Why is the time needed to verify a three-month-old backup not leveling off? And is there a way to bring down my verification times but still be sure that my backup archives are not becoming corrupt due to decaying storage media, etc? Is there some other

Re[4]: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread listserv . traffic
I mis-posted, and should have replied to the list, instead of just Daniel...so here it is... --- I'm not sure what you're doing with your --verify... [I'm confused, I think...] It *sounds* like you want a full CRC style check of the *current* files after the backup is complete. (i.e. File X gets

Re[4]: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread listserv . traffic
[Now I'm bottom posting... :)] --- I'm not aware, so if I'm wrong perhaps someone could correct me, but I'd like a command to, in essence, do a comprehensive --verify-all-files-in-the-archive. [I'm pretty sure such a thing doesn't exist, at least I never saw it in the docs.] This would

Re: Re[4]: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Miller
On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:44 PM, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: I'm not sure what you're doing with your --verify... It *sounds* like you want a full CRC style check of the *current* files after the backup is complete. (i.e. File X gets updated with a delta, and you want to verify that file X

Re[6]: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread listserv . traffic
See inline... I'm not sure what you're doing with your --verify... It *sounds* like you want a full CRC style check of the *current* files after the backup is complete. (i.e. File X gets updated with a delta, and you want to verify that file X is the same both on the source and destination

Re: Re[4]: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

2009-11-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:12:16PM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote: On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:44 PM, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: [snip] In my scenario the repository is synced to an external USB drive that gets rotated each day (i.e. each day I put yesterday's drive in storage and bring a