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Comment by adrian_b

There are programs with which you can add any desired amount of redundancy to your backup archives, so that they would survive corruption that does not affect a greater amount of data than the added redundancy.

For instance, on Linux there is par2cmdline. For all my backups, I create pax archives, which are then compressed, then encrypted, then expanded with par2create, then aggregated again in a single pax file (the legacy tar file formats are not good for faithfully storing all metadata of modern file systems and each kind of tar program may have proprietary non-portable extensions to handle this, therefore I use only the pax file format).

Besides that, important data should be replicated and stored on 2 or even 3 SSDs/HDDs/tapes, which should preferably be stored themselves in different locations.

parent adrian_b 11 months ago

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