You could use rsync.
On 02-Mar-26 23:30, Dale wrote:
On 3/2/26 8:17 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2026-03-02, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
I was hoping I could do a whole directory not each individual file.
Do you only want to know if the _directory_ has changed and not if the
contents of any file has changed? That's possible, but it might
require a small C program: I can't think of existing utility that does
that.
--
Grant
What I was hoping, I could tell it to generate a checksum for a entire
directory, the way it does for a file. Then I do the same thing on my
main version and see if my main version matches the backup version. I
think that even if this could be done, it would take days to generate
it. I was hoping for something that takes less than a hour at least,
maybe even 15 or 20 minutes. I'm getting the idea that what I'm
wanting could take days or longer to perform. 42TBs of data is a lot
to check. Some 64,000 files.
I could just copy Franks script over and run it for the files. It
would report any errors. I'm sure that would take several days, maybe
even a week or more, to run on all those files tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
