On Saturday 02 September 2006 00:20, Jesper Krogh wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Unless I hear back from you otherwise, I am considering that there is no need > > to add this to the list of projects. > > I'm totally aware of the Verify feature and yes it accomplishes the same > task. But in order for me to "try to" detect a silent data corruption > with the verify feature I need to do a full read-through of the entire > disk "just for the verify process". But Bacula does a full read-through > of the disk everytime I schedule a Full backup anyway. > > When bacula is performing the second full backup it will "just > automatically" have the abillity to check for silent corruption in > "every file that hasn't changed since last full backup". This at "no > cost"[1]. Basically just check when inserting the file in the catalog: > That if the checksum is changes then some of the metadata is changed too > and alert if it isn't. > > [1] In terms of performance, backup-time and I/O(but not coding time :-)
The cost of doing a Verify -- Catalog is really quite minimal, so in my opinion, I don't see the benefit in complicatint Backup jobs any more than they are. I wouldn't even know what syntax to use to turn it on and control it. > > Jesper > > -- > Jesper Krogh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
