Data corruption check

[Fabian Cenedese]

At 08:12 19.09.2007 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>On 9/18/07, Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese at indel.ch> wrote:
>> I was wondering what happens if a file that is regularly synched but
>> seldom changes gets corrupted in the copy.
>
>On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:23:28AM +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
>> I was asking because I'm responsible for our backups. The
>> current solution with rsync works nicely. While the RAID storage
>> also monitor the HD's SMART state I was still wondering
>> about a way to detect otherwise unknown data corruption.
>
>I run rsync inside of dirvish (www.dirvish.org) for automated
>backups.  I also run osiris (osiris.shmoo.com) which scans for
>modified files, both checking the metadata and a hash of the 
>actual data, finding all changes relative to a database on a
>central osiris server.

We already have a backup system that creates incremental backups
as well as mirroring the file server as well as the backups to a
second RAID. I think the osiris is a bit overkill for our application.
But thanks for the info.

bye  Fabi