Re: [OT] Backup solutions - watching

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jamie Lawrence wrote:

> If you use it, I recommend keeping a close eye on it.

if you use any backup system ...
	- restore that "backup data" to a new disk regularly
	and see that all the files are there..

	ls -laR /Original > /tmp/x.x
	ls -laR /Restored-from-Backup > /tmp/y.y

	and start comparing/diff'ing for missing files
 	( and yeah..dont use the options shown above.. :-)

	might wanna use awk too check for certain things only
	(filenames, links) and ignore time for example..

c ya
alvin