[wplug-bsd] Verification of a dump archive?

[Bill Moran]

Larry Daberko <larry at daberko.com> wrote:

> Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > Hey Larry.
> > 
> > Your reasoning seems sound.  -x should do what you want.  If you're
> > extra paranoid, you could take an MD5 of the file before backup and
> > after restore and verify that they match.
> > 
> 
> Bill,
> *smacks head* I don't know why I didn't see that -x option earlier in 
> the man pages.
> 
> Is there a way to skip the
>       set owner/mode for '.'? [yn]
> question at the end of the restore?  I'm tying to set up a shell script 
> to verify archives.

The man page for my 5.4 systems says that -y will automatically answer
this for you.  I don't remember for sure if this option translates to
other versions.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com