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.

The only time you should see this is on non-rsync incrementals where the 
timestamp on the files in question are backdated to before the previous 
full.  Do you have missed files without a log entry in other situations?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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