At 08:12 19.09.2007 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >On 9/18/07, Fabian Cenedese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was wondering what happens if a file that is regularly synched but >> seldom changes gets corrupted in the copy. > >On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:23:28AM +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote: >> I was asking because I'm responsible for our backups. The >> current solution with rsync works nicely. While the RAID storage >> also monitor the HD's SMART state I was still wondering >> about a way to detect otherwise unknown data corruption. > >I run rsync inside of dirvish (www.dirvish.org) for automated >backups. I also run osiris (osiris.shmoo.com) which scans for >modified files, both checking the metadata and a hash of the >actual data, finding all changes relative to a database on a >central osiris server.
We already have a backup system that creates incremental backups as well as mirroring the file server as well as the backups to a second RAID. I think the osiris is a bit overkill for our application. But thanks for the info. bye Fabi -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
