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  • The reason a tool like the one you describe is not widespread is because, in general, sysadmins want to check the integrity of their backups as a whole, not single files (why do you want to do this?). You can easily do this with (for example) duplicity, using duplicity verify. Commented Nov 24, 2015 at 10:51
  • Hi chris, thanks for your answer. This is a specific tools which make incremental backup of our backup in magnetic tape (already tested before). The goal is to monitore the process between backup1 and magnetic tape backup. There is no way to use duplicity even if duplicity is a great tool. :/ Otherwise i don't think that (in my context) restoring 8To of data and check all data is a good idea. This is why i want to test randomly from backup config files. I already did somes tests between backup1 and 2. The goal now is to test randomly if backup work between backup2 and magnetic tape robot. Commented Nov 24, 2015 at 14:11