Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:04:20 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tool for checking integrity of a file system DUMP Message-ID: <20131025130419.GA1969@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310250655090.68059@wonkity.com> References: <20131025082352.GA15369@sh4-5.1blu.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310250655090.68059@wonkity.com>
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El día Friday, October 25, 2013 a las 06:59:56AM -0600, Warren Block escribió: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > I'm using dump(8) for backups. Is there some tool to check the integrity > > of the produced dump? A 'restore -t -f ....' seems to look only into the > > header of the dump and not reading the full file... > > > > Ideally would be a binary comparisation of the files in the dump with > > the original files on disk, ofc directly after the dump done in single > > user mode. > > It may be possible to use mtree(8)'s cksum to compare the original files > with those in the backup. Sorry for not beeing precise enough: I did not want to restore the files to disk, just reading the dump and comparing with the original. Would be nice if restore would have an option for this; -N is not strong enough I think. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz, <guru@unixarea.de>, http://www.unixarea.de/ f: +49-170-4527211 UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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