My company manages winxp laptops for our customer. We configure the
laptop appropriately and make an image of the disk so that we can
restore the drive if things change...pretty typical stuff I know. I
record the images to double layer DVD as well as backed up hard
drive. Quality Assurance has recently asked me how I can verify that
the image recorded on the DVD accurately represents what was on the
hard drive? I know from experience that it should be but I have no
proof and I can't think of any method to do so.
I've come up with one possible solution. I may be able to write (or
find) a program that will list all the files in the entire file system
and run checksum on each one and store to a data file. I could run
the filesystem checksum program on the system before imaging; image
the system; push the image back to the system; run the filesystem
checksum program again.
I realize this may sound like absolute madness but I work for a very
large company and our customer is very important so it's probably
necessary to jump through this hoop to save me some headache down the
road.
Thanks for your suggestions in advance.
-Kevin
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