> On 26/07/11 14:58, Chris Rowson wrote: >> >> I thought I'd just put this out there because I can't seem to find any >> information... Hopefully one of you good people will know :-) >> >> Does smbfs run any kind of error checking/correction on during >> transfer of data to SMB shares on Windows machines? I'm backing some >> stuff up to a Window machine and wondered if I need to run md5sum on >> the files to check for corruption during transfer, or whether SMB/CIFS >> deals with that automatically? > > Hi, Chris. > > Well, TCP/IP does check packet integrity and SMB runs on top of it. > > However, why not use rsync with checksums enabled for your xfers? > > Bye, > > Tony.
Thanks Tony, I guess I should have said smbclient rather than smbfs but you got the gist of what I meant :-) You're right of course; I did consider setting up rsync for backup transfers but it got sent to the back of the queue workwise. I might take a look at it for the extra piece of mind. Ta! Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/