Re: [Duplicity-talk] Logging md5sums of .gpg files?

[edgar . soldin]

On 29.02.2012 21:47, Will McCown wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I've just started using duplicity to backup to Amazon S3.
> 
> In doing a test restore I ran into a situation where the restored
> .difftar.gpg files sometimes contained ~2-3 single bit errors.  This
> problem doesn't seem to be related to duplicity as I was able to
> duplicate it retrieving files with s3cmd.  (And now, either fortunately
> or unfortunately, the problem seem to have gone away with just a
> reboot).
> 
> But the episode makes me worry about the integrity of the backup files.
> I know I can do a "verify", but that requires downloading the backup
> files from s3 with the attendant bandwidth usage and costs.  Amazon provides
> md5sums for all objects in s3, so what would be really handy is if
> duplicity could compute the md5sum for each .gpg file in the backup set
> as they are uploaded, and log those values somewhere.  That would allow
> direct comparison with the md5sums provided by Amazon.
> 
> Are there any hooks in the code for this sort of thing?
> 

they are places, yeah. but wouldn't it be much simpler to just backup to 
file:// and generate and upload|sync to s3 remote manually|scriptwise then?

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