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by bartvk 1207 days ago
My most precious personal data are my family pictures. I protect them with par2. These are basically checksums for your files, but they provide so much added information that you can also repair your files if they are damaged.

Once I coded a shell script that verified all my photos, but I don’t bother with that anymore. I just back everything up, and if there’s ever a problem, the parity files provide an additional safety net.

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How do you protect/ensure the integrity of your par2 files?
In case you’re not joking: I don’t. It’s the one and only line of defense.