I read many posts talking about importance of having multiple copies. but the problem is, even if you have multiple copies, how do you make sure that EVERY FILE in each copy is good. For instance, imagine you want to view a photo taken a few years ago, when you checkout copy 1 of your backup, you find it already corrupted. Then you turn to copy 2/3, find this photo is good. OK you happily discard copy 1 of backup and keep 2/3. Next day you want to view another photo 2, and find that photo 2 in backup copy 2 is dead but good in copy 3, so you keep copy 3, discard copy 3. Now some day you find something is wrong in copy 3, and you no longer have any copies with everything intact.

Someone may say, when we find that some files for copy 1 are dead, we make a new copy 4 from copy 2 (or 3), but problem is, there are already dead files in this copy 2, so this new copy would not solve the issue above.

Just wonder how do you guys deal with this issue? Any idea would be appreciated.

  • Melodic-Look-9428@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s something I need to take a look into more if I’m honest, I checked all my media in VLC looking for duration and replaced any with no duration that wouldn’t play.

    I’ve got an old backup I can refer to and when I sync to my Synology the deleted items don’t get removed so if something gets removed by mistake I have a couple of places to refer back to.

    There’s still the risk of ongoing corruption/bit rot so I installed Checkrr last weekend to try to flag problematic files.

    Take a look: Checkrr