#bitrot is very real and your backups can also suffer from it | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

semi-sketchy · 9 months

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Little reminder to refresh your data every once in awhile! This can be as simple as taking a folder and copying it to the exact same spot then deleting the original. (Don't use cut, that's a moving process.)

Refreshing your data helps prevent bitrot on rarely accessed files!

#bitrot is very real and your backups can also suffer from it #data that sits for years on end without getting accessed - like a photo archive - are prime candidates for bitrot #so every few years you should refresh the data to swarm off that risk #also a server with ECC memory can prevent bitrot of data it stores but lots of people don't have that so just copy and paste your files #anyways going through my cold storage drive and doing that now #wouldn't want to lose these old video files from when i was like 10

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