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A MySQL Server. A script on another server creates a SQL dump and sends it to a backup server and then a script on the backup server drops the old database and imports it. But I would like to get the script to check whether the SQL dump is corrupt before dropping the old database. If you have any suggestions they would be much appreciated .
Take the hash of the file before transmission eg md5sum or sha256sum and compare after copy.
TBH though, if you use eg scp, I reckon that will ensure a clean copy, but no harm in checking if paranoid
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