On 3/4/11 3:56 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
>> I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my
>> part. However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request.
>>
>> I guess the best way to describe it would be a "dry run" restore mode.
>> Something where I could run a full or partial restore  and exercise
>> the mechanism on the backuppc server, while not actually moving the
>> files. Have it go through all the motions, including putting a list of
>> files in the final report.
>
> That can be done now. Just add -n to RsyncRestoreArgs. Presumably
> something similiar can be done for SMB, Tar, etc.

It's probably even better to do a real test of the file content even if you 
just 
do a small random sampling.  You can do a browser download of some subdirectory 
tree, restore it in a different place, then diff against the original - or you 
can use rsync with the -avn options to compare and list files with differences 
but not do a copy.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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