On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:15:36PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > The gist of whatever I read was that all we could do was hope it never > happened to anything crucially important.. I am so sorry that that is > as much as I remember with chances I'll ever stumble back on the same > being pretty slim. > > It's possible it was about something like rsync.. I've been relying on > rsync regularly as I keep working on polishing my Debian Pure > technique.. I do remember thinking it sure bytes that backups we hope > will cover our backsides actually stand a known possibility for being > disastrous themselves.. I can remember mentally visualizing the file > hierarchy while thinking that every single file in it, no matter how > critical, was 100% equally vulnerable at those times of transfers..... > > Couldn't think of the words then but "integrity checks" or some such > similar comes to mind now...
I think that CRC would catch anything in that regard, the original file would have to be 'corrupt' to start with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141229040110.GA32656@tal
