Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:27:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Verify Dump Backups Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104161425040.44370-100000@ns1.coastsight.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104161345360.27215-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com>
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What if I wrote tar to a tape? How could I verify that? I need some sort of solution where I can do level 0 dumps daily, and verify each backup. I tried amanda, but in disaster recovery, it seems like such a pain in the butt to do a base install of freebsd, install amanda, configure it, then run the amrestore program. Probably best to use a simpler solution for what I am doing. Thanks. Sincerely, Rick Duvall On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > I don't know for sure, but I think the file list (restore -t) is kept at > the beginning of the dump so that could be valid, and the rest corrupt. I > think. > > Other then restoring to a dummy partition and comparing, I don't know of > any other way. I periodically manually restore some files just to see... > I suppose you could work that into a script... select a random file each > night from those backed up and restore it, then compare it with the > original. > > Better than nothing... > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rick Duvall wrote: > > > How do I verify a tape backup made with dump as part of my nightly backup > > shell script? > > > > I see that restore -t will print the files and the sizes of the files, but > > I just want to know if what is on the tape matches what is on the > > filesystem after the dump.. > > > > Thanks... > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Rick Duvall > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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