abudfv2008
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abudfv2008 got a reaction from Antoineki in Feature request: Byte to Byte comparison of duplicated files
Hello.
I used to make a file comparison of my data with FreeFileSync (i make backups just mirroring needed data to NAS). I was forced to do so because sometimes got corrupted photos (RAW). It is rare, the drives are ok (of couse they have some degradation, but will live another 5years, at least) but as far as there are a lot of files and their number constantly grows - the chance of corruption raises also. The problem was that I learn about corrupted file only when i try to export photo from Lightroom. I look for the photo in the backup .... ooops it is corrupted too, because bad copy replaced good one during last syncing. So now i run bitwise comparison before syncing.
So the problem is that duplicated data is spread among several disks and i can't compare them with FreeFileSync or another tool. Is would be very good to implement some kind of bitwise comparison (on a folder level) to be able to find such corrupted duplicates.
Regards.
P.S. I think i missed the thread. It should be in DrivePool discussion.
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abudfv2008 got a reaction from Ginoliggime in Feature request: Byte to Byte comparison of duplicated files
Hello.
I used to make a file comparison of my data with FreeFileSync (i make backups just mirroring needed data to NAS). I was forced to do so because sometimes got corrupted photos (RAW). It is rare, the drives are ok (of couse they have some degradation, but will live another 5years, at least) but as far as there are a lot of files and their number constantly grows - the chance of corruption raises also. The problem was that I learn about corrupted file only when i try to export photo from Lightroom. I look for the photo in the backup .... ooops it is corrupted too, because bad copy replaced good one during last syncing. So now i run bitwise comparison before syncing.
So the problem is that duplicated data is spread among several disks and i can't compare them with FreeFileSync or another tool. Is would be very good to implement some kind of bitwise comparison (on a folder level) to be able to find such corrupted duplicates.
Regards.
P.S. I think i missed the thread. It should be in DrivePool discussion.