On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:29:53PM -0600, dan wrote:
> I have a thought here, thought id run it through the users list before
> dropping it on the devs.
> 
> My idea was to add a small step to the backuppc process to validate that all
> files that should be transfered were transfered and automatically flag the
> backup as a partial if there is a discrepancy.
> 
> The idea is to simply compare a list of files with some details such as
> mtime, size and filename. basically, have a post dump command to run a find
> against each share to be backed up on the remote side and on the backuppc
> side then compare the files.
> 
> The reason for this is that I have found that backuppc can miss a file every
> now any then without an error or warning.

There should be a warning in the XferLog about files which disappeared
during the transfer.

Also, the extra step would require a lot of computation (building the
file list is pretty expensive if you're backing up several hundreds of
thousands of files). After all, the extra file list should not be
neccessary because BackupPC shouldn't miss a file in the first place.
:-| And, BTW, building a file list is only possible for rsync transfers.

Where did it miss any files? What transport method are you using? When
did files get missed?

Tino.

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