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 lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/