Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool duplicates and corrupted backups

2008-10-31 Thread Rob Owens
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: The deeper I probe into this, the more confused I get and the more I worry about data integrity on my system... Do a restore to a temporary location and then compare the original with the restore using the diff command: diff -r /path/to/original/* /path/to/restore/*

[BackupPC-users] Pool duplicates and corrupted backups

2008-10-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
OK. I have been spending all day on this and am trying to understand (and fix) the different types of pool duplication and corruption. Types of Duplicate checksums: 1. Same checksum but contents differ -- INTENTIONAL - nothing to fix 2. Same checksum and compressed content I have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool duplicates and corrupted backups

2008-10-30 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Types of Duplicate checksums: 3. Same checksums, different compressed content, same zcatted content As per my earlier email, I found at least one of these and am not sure why they even exist.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool duplicates and corrupted backups

2008-10-30 Thread Craig Barratt
Jeffrey writes: Types of Duplicate checksums: 1. Same checksum but contents differ -- INTENTIONAL - nothing to fix Right. 2. Same checksum and compressed content I have found many of these but contrary to my earlier postings the ones that I examined were not