BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Extracting Checksums from Backuppc Quickly?

2012-03-01 11:01:00
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Extracting Checksums from Backuppc Quickly?
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:59:05 -0600
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Kyle Anderson <andersonkw AT ornl DOT gov> 
wrote:
> List,
> To do audits, I like to get checksums from files and compare them to
> make sure that I have files backed up properly.
>
> I've done cli restores piped to md5sums and simply md5sum'ing files
> using the fuse filesystem. Both methods are "ok"
>
> But I feel like I'm taking the long way around. Backuppc does have the
> md4? checksum already encoded in the pool filename right? Is there a
> quick way to go from filename -> checksum using the information backuppc
> already "knows" ?

Is this just to get a 2nd opinion about them?  That's pretty much
exactly what an rsync full does except it goes on to update any
differences it finds.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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