Hello,
2014-12-05 20:01 GMT+01:00 Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro>:
> On 05/12/14 19:20, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > On 12/05/2014 07:48 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >
> >> The purpose of such a checksum wouldn't be to prove that the
> >> tapes are correct, it would simply be to catch any failure of the
> >> spool disk at the earliest opportunity
> >
> > Monitoring your hardware is not bacula's job. Appropriate tools for
> > this particular job include smartctl, fsck, and checksumming
> > filesystems.
> >
>
> Quite a number of applications keep checksums within their own file
> formats. gzip is one of them, while tar is not. A tgz file is
> therefore more secure than a tar file alone.
>
The same Bacula! Compare apples to apples and pears to pears!
Bacula HAS a block level checksum in the archive volume format like gzip.
It does not have a temporary files checksumming like any other application
(I suppose, I did not check all other).
best regards
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Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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