Re: [Networker] Verifying data written
2006-10-31 01:31:16
On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Kobus Strydom wrote:
Good day list
Is there any way/script I can run to check the integrity of my backups
that completed?
I had a SCSI bus reset problem recently which made my backups useless,
after showing that they completed successful.
I don't have a script to do this, but I was just asked for exactly
the same thing by my manager as a precaution to avoid the problem you
just cited. What I am thinking of doing is putting a few files in a
directory on a client, on each disk or partition on that client, then
touching each test file every day via a scheduled job on that client.
Then all I think I need to do is set up another scheduled job to
recover the most recent backup of those files into the same directory
where they reside and simply do a diff of the recovered files against
the original copy, and if the diff finds any differences, sent out
alerts to people, and delete the recovered files if they are okay.
Its not fool proof, but it should work.
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