[clug] Apple vs Linux Ecosystem

Carlo Hamalainen carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 20:46:18 MDT 2010


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Steve Jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Multiple runs of 'disk repairs' later, all good. [Many hours...]
> [Pretty scary messages from Disk Utility, too!]

So is the drive ok? Can you compare your backup against another backup?

I use rdiff-backup for my big incremental backups because it has a
--verify option that uses some sort of crypto checksum thing. Not much
point having a backup if I can't trust it or check which files are
definitely ok.

-- 
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net


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