If feasible, you may want to generate MD5 sums on the streamed output and then use these for verification.
-- Sriram On 12/5/09, Edward Ned Harvey <sola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> Depending of your version of OS, I think the following post from Richard >> Elling >> will be of great interest to you: >> - >> http://richardelling.blogspot.com/2009/10/check-integrity-of-zfs-send-streams. >> html > > Thanks! :-) > No, wait! .... > > According to that page, if you "zfs receive -n" then you should get a 0 exit > status for success, and 1 for error. > > Unfortunately, I've been sitting here and testing just now ... I created a > "zfs send" datastream, then I made a copy of it and toggled a bit in the > middle to make it corrupt ... > > I found that the "zfs receive -n" always returns 0 exit status, even if the > data stream is corrupt. In order to get the "1" exit status, you have to > get rid of the "-n" which unfortunately means writing the completely > restored filesystem to disk. > > I've sent a message to Richard to notify him of the error on his page. But > it would seem, the zstreamdump must be the only way to verify the integrity > of a stored data stream. I haven't tried it yet, and I'm out of time for > today... > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
