Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup verification

[Gary Mulder]

A manual but very reliable way to verify backups is:

        cd /
        find . -type f ! -name "/backups/*" -exec cksum {} \; > 
/tmp/cksums_actual

        cd /backups
        find . -type f -exec cksum {} \; > /var/cksums_rdiff

        diff /tmp/cksums_*

Of course any files that change between the two cksums will not match, but 
hopefully these would be easily identifiable as having changed (e.g. 
they're in /var or /tmp).

Gary

At 05:45 AM 8/11/2004 , you wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:33:58 +0200
> Tom Laermans <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > When using rdiff-backup, is there a way to verify that the backup which
> > is then stored on the backup server is really 100% correct?
> >
> > Does rdiff-backup handle this on its own?
>
> Kind of. It will flag that the backed up file differs from the original
> (if, for example, you back up a changing log file). Is that what you mean?
>
> Keith

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