[NTLUG:Discuss] checking backups

[Ralph Green, Jr.]

Howdy,
  I want to verify that a backup of many files has worked.  I can do it,
but my method seems a bit brutish, and I suspect there may be an easier
way to do this.  In both cases, the files and directories(up to 3 levels
deep) are stored on Linux machines.  Here is my method.
On each machine,
 1. cd to the directory containing the files
 2. find -name "*" > checkem.sh
 3. edit the file to add /usr/bin/md5sum to start of each line and the
generic shell stuff at the top(i.e., #!/bin/sh)
 4. run the script on both machines, redirecting output to a save file.
 5. compare results

  Is there a simple way to do this?

-- 
Good day,
Ralph Green, Jr.   <severian at pobox.com>