From: Manuel Arostegui Date: November 7 2012 1:31pm Subject: Re: How to verify mysqldump files List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/228591 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175cac4282c08604cde7bef5 --0015175cac4282c08604cde7bef5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 2012/11/7 Ananda Kumar > you can use checksum to make sure there are not corruption in the file That would work for the file integrity itself not for the data integrity _in_ the file. As Claudio suggested, probably going thru the whole recovery process from time to time is the best way to make sure the backup'ed data is correct. Manuel. --0015175cac4282c08604cde7bef5--