Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Verify times increasing

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:00:48AM +0000, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > I'm not aware, so if I'm wrong perhaps someone could correct me, but
> > I'd like a command to, in essence, do a comprehensive
> > --verify-all-files-in-the-archive. [I'm pretty sure such a thing
> > doesn't exist, at least I never saw it in the docs.]
> >
> > This would apply all deltas to *all* files (back to the oldest
> copy) and compare the stored
> > hashes at the time of backup to the rebuilt file. [Note all the
> > files, not just those in a particular target date/delta.]
> >
> > This wouldn't verify that every file would be correct in every delta
> > version, but it would, I think, get as close as one might come to
> > that.
> 
> I think it is an excellent proposal (as in, how come rdiff-backup

when you talk about hashes are you talking of something similar to a
md5sum of the whole file or just blocks of the file.


I think it would be good to have a md5sum ( something similar ) attached
to each backed up file for each backup.


> doesn't already offer that?) But development of rdiff-backup seems
> to have gone quiet recently, I guess Andrew has been busy?
> 
> Dominic
> 
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