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Which backup tool can recover a 1TB video if its backup had a 512kB error? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dumbdude001 on 2024-08-31 15:50:51.

Had an interesting question from a non-technical friend of mine. He recently had some corruption in his external HDD and was asking this question.

Imagine you have a video that is in the size of 1 GB, and then a corruption occured within the backup's storage medium or during transmission or some random bit flip. This corruption is of the size 512kB or 1MB.

Would any of the block-based dedup backup tools try to restore the 1GB video file? OR would these tools just skip restoring this file?

If some of these tools can somehow manage to restore the video, which backup tool would restore the video with the least amount of damage?

My 2 cents: I thought non-dedup tools like rsnapshot would probably be the best.

Thanks guys.

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