Preservation of correspondence

5 Feb 2007

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   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!

Few people do backups. Those that do trust that the data
that was copied was done so CORRECTLY.

I have to implement a digital archiving mechanism for the
CHM software collection, so this is all VERY fresh in my
mind right now.

The trick is coming up with something that has verification
down to the individual archive commit that can be tracked
essentially forever.

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