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by semi-extrinsic 1044 days ago
Not OP, but I would guess it's something like this:

  1. Make a e.g. 30MB file of random data  
  2. Copy it to "_reference" file  
  3. Upload the file to backup service  
  4. Restore the file from backup service  
  5. Diff restored file against reference