backing up to a cd-r disk - how to test it?

[Jon Lapham]

Bill Suit wrote:
> I've just succeeded in making my first gnucash data back-up cd-r. How
> can I safely test it to determing that it actually works. I tried
> opening a new file in gnucash and it could not get a lock, as of course
> I already had opened gnucash. Suggestions welcomed. TIA, Bill ps - do I
> need md5's here also?

An md5 would work nicely, it would tell you if the file on the CD-R is 
identical to the original:

md5sum /HDPATH/FILENAME
md5sum /mnt/cdrom/FILENAME

PS: You could always just copy the file from the CD-R to the HD and open it.

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