zvault/docs/man/zvault-check.1.md

zvault-check(1) -- Check the repository, a backup or a backup subtree

SYNOPSIS

zvault check [OPTIONS] [PATH]

DESCRIPTION

This subcommand checks the repository, a backup or a backup subtree given by PATH.

The repository, backup, of subtree given by PATH must be in the format [repository][::backup_name[::subtree]] as described in zvault(1). If PATH is omitted, the default repository location is used instead.

The command will perform the following checks in order:

• Bundle integrity
• Full bundle contents (optional)
• Index integrity
• Backup integrity
• Filesystem integrity

If a backup is specified in PATH, only this backup will be check in the backup integrity check and only the filesystem integrity of this backup will be checked in the filesystem integrity check.

If a subtree is specified in PATH, no backups will be checked and only the given subtree will be checked in the filesystem integrity check.

Unless --full is set, the bundles will only be checked without actually fetching them fully. This means that their contents can only be read from their header and this information is not verified. If --full is set, the full bundles are fetched and their contents are compared to what their header claims. This check takes a long time since all bundles need to fetched, decrypted and decompressed fully to read their contents.

OPTIONS

• --full:

  Also check the contents of the bundles by fetching and decompressing them. Note: This flag causes the check to be much slower.

• -h, --help:

  Prints help information

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2017 Dennis Schwerdel This software is licensed under GPL-3 or newer (see LICENSE.md)