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Promote the "spot" check from a beta feature to stable.
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Dan Helfman
2024-11-24 19:03:05 -08:00
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@@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ file). Because if something goes wrong with your source files, most
consistency checks will still pass with flying colors and you won't discover
there's a problem until you go to restore.
<span class="minilink minilink-addedin">New in version 1.8.10</span> <span
class="minilink minilink-addedin">Beta feature</span> That's where the spot
check comes in. This check actually compares your source file counts and data
against those in the latest archive, potentially catching problems like
incorrect excludes, inadvertent deletes, files changed by malware, etc.
<span class="minilink minilink-addedin">New in version 1.8.10</span> That's
where the spot check comes in. This check actually compares your source file
counts and data against those in the latest archive, potentially catching
problems like incorrect excludes, inadvertent deletes, files changed by
malware, etc.
But because an exhaustive comparison of all source files against the latest
archive might be too slow, the spot check supports *sampling* a percentage of
@@ -180,11 +180,6 @@ to run it immediately after a `create` action (borgmatic's default behavior).
Instead, it may make more sense to run the spot check on a separate schedule
from `create`.
As long as the spot check feature is in beta, it may be subject to breaking
changes. But feel free to use it in production if you're okay with that
caveat, and please [provide any
feedback](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/#issues) you have on this feature.
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