[Box Backup] Restoring a corrupted archive?

[James O'Gorman]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Box Backup is designed for efficient backups over the Internet, perhaps it 
> might be wise to run it directly to the remote server in future? Together 
> with regular compares, that should minimise the chances of getting corrupt 
> data in your store, and alert you quickly to problems before they become 
> fatal.

Do any of the Linux distributions have anything like FreeBSD's 
periodic(8)? This thread has prompted me to start writing a periodic 
script that I will include with the FreeBSD port, that will run once a 
month and run "bbackupquery -q 'compare -a' quit" (with the -a flag 
being changeable, e.g. if someone wanted to use -aq instead).

Maybe in the install docs we could recommend adding something like this 
to root's crontab.

James