Inigo Montoya
28-Feb-2010, 02:09 PM
After I make image backups of my system, I mount them as a virtual drive and use BC2 in binary compare mode to make 100% sure my backup is readable and exactly matches my system.
What I'm looking to do now is to compare my current system to the contents of an _older_ backup -- to test integrity both against each other. Any noted differences would indicate that either my live copy or the backup has endured corruption, and I can then look into the problem further.
As such, I want to exclude all files where the "current" side has a newer date than the "backup" side, as I'd fully expect these to differ.
One way to to describe this is something like the inverse of the current "only left/right side newer". I want to exclude the "newer" files from comparison.
So to re-state, what I'm looking for is a full binary compare of files, but I want to see results only for files whose timestamps are the same.
Is this possible?
What I'm looking to do now is to compare my current system to the contents of an _older_ backup -- to test integrity both against each other. Any noted differences would indicate that either my live copy or the backup has endured corruption, and I can then look into the problem further.
As such, I want to exclude all files where the "current" side has a newer date than the "backup" side, as I'd fully expect these to differ.
One way to to describe this is something like the inverse of the current "only left/right side newer". I want to exclude the "newer" files from comparison.
So to re-state, what I'm looking for is a full binary compare of files, but I want to see results only for files whose timestamps are the same.
Is this possible?