Re: [Duplicity-talk] Integrity check

[László Monda]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Jacob Godserv <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:46, László Monda <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> How is it possible to do integrity check with duplicity on backed up
>> content?  The verify action compares content, but it's not explicitly
>> for integrity checks, right?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>
> I always generate sha512sums after each backup, with something like
> following script. This only runs in Linux environment.
>
> --------------------
> files=$(find -name 'duplicity*gpg')
>
> for file in ${files}; do
>        sha512_dir=$(dirname "${file}")"/.sha512sums/"
>        if [[ ! -d "${sha512_dir}" ]]; then mkdir "${sha512_dir}" || exit 1; fi
>        file_checksum="${sha512_dir}"$(basename "${file}")".sha512sum"
>
>        if [[ ! -e "${file_checksum}" || ! -s "${file_checksum}" ]]; then
>                echo "Generating checksum for ${file} and storing in
> ${file_checksum}..."
>                sha512sum ${file} > "${file_checksum}"
>        fi
> done
> --------------------
>
> I can them check the sums by running the following command:
> # sha512sum -c .sha512sums/*
>
> Or I can check something specific like this:
> # sha512sum -c 
> .sha512sums/duplicity-full-signatures.DATETZ.sigtar.gpg.sha512sum
>
> Something like that would verify that the backup data is intact.

Sounds good, however it'd be very nice to have an integrity-check
action specifically for this task.

>
> --
>    Jacob
>
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