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Backup Verification - Top Level #279

Open bhavicp opened 11 years ago

bhavicp commented 11 years ago

For most backup methods, this can be done by downloading the backup from the offsite location, then comparing it to the local one using md5 (on the whole .tar).

However with Dropbox, I'm not sure how it's possible to download a specific file via CLI. As the way Dropbox works is it syncs local files to the server, and also keeps the local files.

bhavicp commented 11 years ago

I think verification with Dropbox will simply be confirming that it has been uploaded successfully to Dropbox's servers. Another step could be to duplicate the .tar during the backup process, keeping one in a separate folder, other is sent to Dropbox. Then confirming the hashes .