On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:45:13 +0100
Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> DB wrote:
> > The reason I went with tar tvh was (to try) to check the contents
> > of the file after "open with ark" in Dollphin spat out the errors.
> > I guess that actually trying to extract the files when the table of
> > contents fails would not be any more successful?
>
> Run
>
> md5sum F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz
>
> on both machines.
> If you get two different results, something bad is happening.
>
I agree with the above! I take it one step beyond that. During my
nightly backups, I have it create the hash for all my tarballs.
Pretty simple to do. As an example:
if you have backup /home/you, /etc and /root to tarballs:
home.you.tar.gz
etc.tar.gz
root.tar.gz
Doing something like md5sum *.gz > checksum.md5 will create and store
the hash info in the file, checksum.md5
Then to verify, md5sum -c checksum.md5
If all goes well, you'll see something like:
home.you.tar.gz OK
etc.tar.gz OK
root.tar.gz OK
Of course, you probably knew all this anyways.
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Best regards,
Chris
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe
nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
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