Al Kossow wrote:
Is everything you're 'backing up'
checksummed?
Yes. I regularly ( == when I remember!) backup my email
by throwing it all into a zip archive and then that gets
written (along with other stuff) to CD, along with an
MD5SUM file.
Good for you!
Yes, but the md5sum will only detect corruption, not correct it. I use
winrar with parity (what it calls "recovery info") set to 5%, and if I
have gigabytes to archive over several mediums, I use quickpar
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ to generate the parity info.
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