[TUHS] Irwin 285

[Larry McVoy]

> > If you aren't backing up with a crc then you are doing it wrong.
> 
> True, but CRC does not buy you much if the media are fubared enough to be
> largely unreadable.

We compare the CRC against previous backups.  A table of

pathname, size, mtime, CRC

you compare all the ones that are the same and flag the ones that differ
only in CRC.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com
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