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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:15:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        wmoran@potentialtech.com (Bill Moran)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: md5 of a filesystem / verifying filesystem integrity after
Message-ID:  <200406231415.i5NEFgH18613@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040623100439.5702d9a7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> from "Bill Moran" at Jun 23, 2004 10:04:39 AM

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> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem,
> > > to be able 
> > > 
> > > to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has
> > > occurred?
> 
> <snip the potential problems with dump/md5>
> 
> Could you use something like tripwire (which does an md5 of each file on the
> filesystem and stores them in a database for later verification)?
> 
> I think tripwire only checks executable files, but the approach should work
> with all files.

But, of course, you still would have to have all the checksums done
before the dump was done (or at least before a disk failed or was otherwise
smotched) if you wanted to verify a restore.

////jerry

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