Adding new checksum files may or may not be a big deal. If the snapshot
hosts have enough memory to keep the files in cache a bit longer, so
they don't need to be read back from disk, running new checksums may be
very fast.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dumps has more information on the setup.

Il 20/04/24 03:40, Arthur D. Edelstein ha scritto:
> In order to get the
> SHA-256 for the timestamp, I need to download each file and compute the
> hash.

I understand it's suboptimal, but if you're in a rush you can also use
Toolforge and create a tool, a bit like
https://dump-torrents.toolforge.org/ , to run sha256sum on the
appropriate files (which are mounted even on the bastion host). I/O
tends to be rather slow but may still be faster than your networking.

Best,
        Federico