Fedor Piecka wrote: > The backup of the most used > machines (they also have the largest amount of data to backup) takes > about 30 minutes. But after that, the verification takes about 12 > hours. > > Is this normal?
Yes. I think so. The backup obviously only does work on changed files, but verify reads every file in the repository in its entirety and computes a SHA-1 hash. This is unavoidably going to take a very long time. Perhaps there should be an option to verify only files that have changed during the most recent backup (--verify-last?). The problem here is if your backup drive goes flaky. Then, files that /shouldn't/ have changed on the backup drive may nonetheless be corrupted by an errant write without verify-last noticing. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
