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by mindajar 3650 days ago
Today you can verify backups on OS X with "tmutil verifychecksums", at least on 10.11. The UI to this could be improved, but user data checksums don't necessarily need to be a filesystem feature. On a single-disk device, the FS doesn't have enough information to do anything useful about corrupt files anyway.
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> On a single-disk device, the FS doesn't have enough information to do anything useful about corrupt files anyway.

Some filesystems can be configured to keep two or more copies of certain filesystem/directory/etc. contents. Two copies is enough information to do something useful.