help troubleshooting inconsistencies in back up sizes

[gauze]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, gaw zay wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, John Van Essen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, gaw zay <gauze at dropdead.org> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > To examine the difference between hierarchies, do this on each server
> > (replacing N with a number):
> >
> >   find /mailhome -ls | sort +10 >/tmp/serverN.txt
> >
> > (The sort sorts on the filename at the end of the line.)
> >
> > If the machines use different timezones, put TZ=GMT before the find:
> >
> >   TZ=GMT find /mailhome -ls | sort +10 >/tmp/serverN.txt
> >
> > so all the timestamps will be the same.
> >
> > Then use rsync to gather them on one machine and do diffs between them.
> > --
> >         John Van Essen  Univ of Minn. Alumnus  <vanes002 at umn.edu>
> >
>
>
> I was thinking of doing this and then something like:
> cat server2.txt server3.txt | sort | uniq -u
> to only get files that don't exist on both. of course it'll take 5000
> years to run on 25 million lines, ugh.

ok I did this on 2 different back ups and there is 1 single file that's
different between them, I guess they are fine. what is df measuring I
wonder ...


brian
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