Is a tool available to check the integrity of copied files?
Little Girl
littlergirl at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 11:52:30 UTC 2023
Hey there,
Colin Law wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
>> Probably any of the many backup tools out there could do it.
>If the OS has a cached version of the file then I believe that when
>the backup program asks the OS to read the file it will be given the
>cached version, just the same as any other program such as diff. So
>again that would not prove that the file has been successfully
>written to the stick.
Ah. I must have missed that. A small test could be done with a backup
of one text file that gets copied over and then changed in one
location before the comparison is run. Grsync catches such changes
here, but I'm doing my backups from one SSD to another rather than a
stick.
--
Little Girl
There is no spoon.
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list