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

Bill Suit bsuit at bellsouth.net
Mon Jul 21 19:24:03 CDT 2003


Thank you Jon. I ran the md5's and they matched then copied the cdrom
file to my hd and opened it. It appears to be just fine. Ain't life
sweet :>) Bill


On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 17:49, Jon Lapham wrote:
> 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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