Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I need to verify some directories of backed up data versus restored data. What 
would you recommend as the type of comparison to do, and which tool would give 
the easiest/most usable output?


Diff works if they are on the same machine.  On different machines you can:
rsync -avn -essh local-dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/above_dir

The -a option says to recurse and take all possible attributes, -v says show the file names, and -n says don't actually do it (be careful not to omit that..). This will give you a list of filenames that have some difference between local_dir and the remote copy. If you add a --delete it will also show anything that exists in the remote but not the local side (and be especially careful not to omit the -n in this case).

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  Les Mikesell
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