Class equality check without operator==

I have a data model that is quite large with many members, and many of them are themselves large data models, with nesting like this for several levels deep. The top class represents the overall model that is serialized and sent off to a server for backup. As a debugging step, we would like to deserialize a recent backup and compare it to the in-memory data model at the time of backup, which should be equal. The most obvious way to do this is apply operator== on the current model and its serialized-then-deserialized version.

The problem is that the degree of nesting and quantity of custom data structures will require a tremendous amount of code to write all those operator== implementations. Not to mention that many of those individual implementations will alone be many lines long to compare every member's equality. We're easily talking >1k lines of code just spent on operator==. Even if we do all that, there is large room for programmer error on something like this.

Is there any alternative for a quick and dirty (though reliable) equality check, perhaps using much lower level techniques, or anything that would not require a couple of days of doing nothing but writing operator== functions?