On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:21:00PM -0600, Joshua Radke wrote:
> Speaking of reliability of backup media, does anybody have suggestions
> on verifying the integrity of external disks? Unfortunately, I cannot
> check SMART status on either of these disks (afaik ... I've tried, and
> there seems to be some problems with smartmontools on USB disks?). Does
> running an occasional e2fsck --force and badblocks give a good
> indication of disk health?
You could create md5 checksums for all the files and verify them
periodically. Sort of a poor man's ZFS scrubbing.
Cheers,
florin
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