Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup verification

[Keith Edmunds]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:05:33 -0400
Gary Mulder <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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_*

That will only work if the backups are to a locally-mounted disk.

Keith

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