Re: Recovering from bad disk ...

Thanks Dan.

On 11/03/2011, at 4:43 AM, Dan Shoop wrote:

>> It would be nice to be able to compare these partitions (either both new ones or either new one and the old problematic one) and get some sort of summary of differences (specifically with regards to data differences, not storage mechanism differences).
> 
> This is what Backup Bouncer does. It compares source and target copies after "backup" or "clone" operations and 

I got the impression it was more to test backup tools rather than really provide a useful report on large file sets.  How would it handle millions of files, can it summarise the results or would it produce a huge amount of output?  I'll give it a go and see ...

> As for using hfsdebug, especially the original tool, it's not been updated for some time and isn't accurately reporting some things that are going on in OS X 10.6. That's not to say it's not working, it just isn't aware to report accordingly. 

I noted that and its replacement fileXray but I think Backup Bouncer may be more appropriate, or at least heading in the right direction, for my needs.

Cheers,
Ashley.



--
Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
mrhatken at mac dot com
Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!)