Verifying backups
Ronald F. Guilmette
rfg at tristatelogic.com
Thu Oct 1 18:29:45 UTC 2015
In message <560cca51.5cWVPTQcE1NFlU+U%perryh at pluto.rain.com>,
perryh at pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote:
>Just because rsync is an awesome hammer, it does not necessarily follow
>that every problem involving backups closely resembles a nail :)
An excellent and very apropos point.
>Since your source and backup are both local, I suspect using rsync as
>a comparison tool is overkill. (It may even be overkill for making
>the backups in the first place.)
In theory, I might be able to use cpio -p rather than rsync to make my
backups, however for some reason that I can't remember anymore, when
I originally set up my system for making backups, I looked at that
possibility and concluded that rsync was preferable to cpio -p. I
wish that I could remember why. (It might have had to do with better
or more complete handling of ``weird stuff'' like extended file
attributes, ACLs, device nodes, or other such oddities)
>Had you considered "diff -q -r"?
No, actually. thanks for the suggestion!
>(I'm using gnu diff; other variants might have different command options.)
The diff I have here on FreeBSD (9.1) seem to be GNU, so this will work.
Regards,
rfg
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