On 17/06/2010 17:26, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Jonathan Schaeffer wrote at about 16:29:19 +0200 on Thursday, June 17, 2010:

>   >  Is there a checking mechanism to ensure the integrity of the restored 
> files ?
>   >  i.e. the server can check that the files he is about to restore is the 
> same as
>   >  the one he stored previously ?
>   >
>
> Not automatically or officially. Though it might be a good feature to
> add in the future.
>
> If you use rsync checksum caching, I have written a routine that
> allows to check some or all pool or pc files for consistency between
> the full file md4 checksum stored by rsync and the actual file
> content.
>
> One could also do other checks such as checking the pool file name
> against its contents using the partial file md5sum that backuppc
> uses. One could also check the file size stored in the attrib file
> against the actual size.

Thanks for the quick and helpfull answer.

This is great. I'll give it a try. This could be coupled with Nagios to report 
any anomality.

Thanks.

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