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Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatically spot-checking backups?

2015-10-30 12:23:10
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatically spot-checking backups?
From: Michael Stowe <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:59:14 -0500
On 2015-10-29 12:31, Dave Sill wrote:
> I've got a customer who'd like me to implement some kind of automatic
> spot-checking of their BackupPC backups. E.g., pick a random system,
> pick a few random files, pull them from BackupPC and compare them
> (e.g., md5) to the files on the system.
> 
> Is there any reasonable way to do this? Is there an API for BackupPC?
> I googled and couldn't find anything. We're using 3.3.0.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Dave

I do something similar using one of the fuse filesystems (while there 
are a couple of files in particular that I check, it's nothing more 
complex than a shell script executing a hash on two files and confirming 
a match.)

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