>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:18:06 -0500, Steve Costaras said:
> 
> I am looking at doing base jobs to help avoid tying up systems for too 
> long though until multi-threading for the FD arrives it's kind of moot 
> as it takes the same amount of time with large file sets.    I use the 
> MD5 checks as a means to verify file integrity and to restore if a file 
> gets corrupted.
> 
> To get around the issue I set the MD5 at a full backup window and then 
> have written a couple small shell scripts that are 
> multi-threaded/process to check the files on the systems every week 
> (checks run in less than 18 hours opposed to the 9-10 days if I ran a 
> verify w/ bacula).   I then can compare those md5's with the ones in the 
> catalogue and restore just the corrupted files.
> 
> So I take it that there is no way to do this except a manual process at 
> this point?

There is no syntax for it in the Schedule, that is for sure.

However, I think the accurate fileset option is only used for diff/incr
backups.  The full backups use the basejob fileset option instead.  The
defaults are accurate=mcs basejob=mspug5 so you might not need to set them at
all if you only want md5 checks on the full backups.

__Martin


> 
> steve
> 
> On 7/21/2010 2:06 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:51:37 -0500, Steve Costaras said:
> >> I am running v5.0.2 against some clients with many files (5-10
> >> million).   I have and want the fileset option of accurate=mcs5 (md5
> >> checks) when I do a full backup of the clients.   However I DO NOT want
> >> to do a md5 check when I do differentials/incremental's due to the fact
> >> that it takes days for bacula to calculate the md5's as it's single
> >> threaded.
> > Why do you want the md5 checks when doing a full backup?  Are you using Base
> > jobs?  If not, then the full backup doesn't check the md5 anyway because it
> > always backs up every file.
> >
> > __Martin
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