06-02-2014
I agree with rbatte1.
Firstly, what are you trying to achieve? Is this some kind of academic exercise?
The basic backup utilities like cpio, tar and ufsdump were written years ago by people who did their homework. Most of us use these utilities (or other more expensive backup suites) to implement our backups. If these utilities were 'faulty' they wouldn't have been released as part of the O/S otherwise there would be uproar.
The main considerations we take into account are:
1. Did the backup job exit in a non-zero state, ie, with an error, eg, backup job lost communication with the volume being backed up.
2. Was there a full system crash during the backup that stopped it?
3. Is the media holding the backup readable (eg, is the tape too old and knackered)? Verify this by listing the media, possibly to a file, and then counting number of lines in the file to tell you the number of files backed up. A script could notify you if the number is "out of range".
Even if you run a backup in single user mode some files will still change between backup and verify, eg, log files.
You don't need everything to be exact to the trillionth bytes to perform a full system restore and get the system on its feet.
So tell us all some more information about the need.
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idevicebackup2
idevicebackup2(1) General Commands Manual idevicebackup2(1)
NAME
idevicebackup2 - Create or restore backups for devices running iOS 4 or later.
SYNOPSIS
idevicebackup2 [OPTIONS] CMD [CMDOPTIONS] DIRECTORY
DESCRIPTION
Create or restore backup from the current or specified directory.
OPTIONS
-u, --udid UDID
target specific device by its 40-digit device UDID.
-s, --source UDID
use backup data from device specified by UDID.
-i, --interactive
request passwords interactively on the command line.
-d, --debug
enable communication debugging.
-h, --help
prints usage information.
COMMANDS
backup create backup for the device.
restore
restore last backup to the device.
--system
restore system files, too.
--reboot
reboot the system when done.
--copy
create a copy of backup folder before restoring.
--settings
restore device settings from the backup.
--remove
remove items which are not being restored.
--password PWD
supply the password of the source backup.
info show details about last completed backup of device.
list list files of last completed backup in CSV format.
encryption on|off [PWD]
enable or disable backup encryption.
changepw [OLD NEW]
change backup password on target device.
AUTHORS
Martin Szulecki
Nikias Bassen
SEE ALSO
idevicebackup(1)
idevicebackup2(1)