Brad Alexander wrote at about 14:13:22 -0500 on Friday, March 4, 2011:
> Thats a good point, Les. I also thought that with backuppc 4.0 on the way,
> I'd mention maybe having some test options within backuppc itself. I was
> more thinking out loud, and this thread kind of gelled the need in my mind.
>
UGGGGH Top-posting makes it really hard to respond to threads...
But more generally, I think it would be good to have the option to
include varying levels of verbosity and/or specific include/exclude
options for different error conditions.
There is a rich amount of data reported both in the server log and in
the individual client logs. Some of it quite important but most of us
probably don't browse through the server log let alone the individual
client logs on a daily basis. Currently, as long as the backup
completes, the daily emails are all peachy. Similarly, using the web
interface to check for errors is probably something many of us don't
do...
In my case, I ended up having a corrupt disk (due to a software RAID
issue) and backuppc kept sending me emails like everything was ok even
though the logs had errors that could have caught that.
For example it would be nice to get a daily or weekly email report
with errors tabulated by client where one could set which errors are
included.
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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