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Bill Moran wrote:

> 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.
> 
Hey Bill, Jerry,

You can also use AIDE for that... :-) and indeed tripwire

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