On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:54:05PM +0200, Holger Parplies wrote:
> Try something like
> 
>       BackupPC_verifyPool -s -p
> 
> to scan the whole pool, or
> 
>       BackupPC_verifyPool -s -p -r 0
> 
> to test it on the 0/0/0 - 0/0/f pool subdirectories (-r takes a Perl
> expression evaluating to an array of numbers between 0 and 255, e.g. "0",
> "0 .. 255" (the default), or "0, 1, 10 .. 15, 5"; note the quotes to make your
> shell pass it as a single argument). If you have switched off compression,
> you'll have to add a '-u' (though I'm not sure this test makes much sense in
> that case). You'll want either '-p' (progress) or '-v' (verbose) to see
> anything happening. It *will* take time to traverse the pool, but you can
> safely interrupt the script at any time and use the range parameter to resume
> it later (though not at the exact place) - or just suspend and resume it (^Z).
> 
> You might need to change the 'use lib' statement in line 64 to match your
> distribution.

I ran this with -r 0 and got as a summary:

  39000 files in 16 directories checked, 4 had wrong digests, of these 0
  zero-length.

running it with -r "1,2" now.

-- 
                                -- rouilj

John Rouillard       System Administrator
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