Re: [nottingham] tar + backups

From: martin@wrasse.demon.co.uk
Date: Wed 05 Jun 2002 - 12:25:59 BST


matthew@sackman.co.uk wrote:

>
> Does anyone have any suggestions/comments?

I don't know about getting the md5sums, but you could just compare the whole archive without needing a separate copy on your drive.

mkfifo ~/tempfifo
tar c /backed/up/stuff >~/tempfifo &
diff /dev/st0 ~/tempfifo

. will tell you if there is any difference. Not much help if you need to know _what_ differs, admittedly.

Cheers,
Martin Garton.

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