From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id nAPFln1W246645 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:47:49 -0600 Received: from estes.americas.sgi.com (estes.americas.sgi.com [128.162.236.10]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780A8AC010 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:48:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B0D51BC.5020806@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:48:12 -0600 From: Bill Kendall MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: consistency checks References: In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Rick Meertens Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Rick Meertens wrote: > Does the xfs backup tools contain any backup media consistency checks? I > want to verify if the old backup on a tape is corrupt, with a checksum orso. > > > > I have seen that the xfsdump inventory can be checked on consistency, > but nothing found for the tapes Not really -- unfortunately most of the structures and data written by xfsdump are not checksummed. The closest thing is to use xfrestore -t. This will read the entire dump, listing all of the files it contains. So you'll at least know whether or not there are unreadable blocks on the media, and whether the structure of the dump is okay, but not whether your file data is consistent. Bill _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs