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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:59:56 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tool for checking integrity of a file system DUMP
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310250655090.68059@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131025082352.GA15369@sh4-5.1blu.de>
References:  <20131025082352.GA15369@sh4-5.1blu.de>

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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.



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