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Can you rate my bit rot checking / preventing workflow (and help me improve it) (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/evyjb on 2024-09-14 09:33:08.

My personal archives are made up of 4To HDD numbered 001, 002, and copies named as follows: 001A, 001B, 001C...

They are stored in a pellican case most of the year, but once a year I run a SHA-256 checksum on each HDD. My thought process is that it helps prevent bit rot by making them activate once a year, as well as check for bit rot by creating a checksum that I can compare to the original checksum of each HDD.

If the checksum is different, I run Freefilesync to "resync the bytes" from another copy.

Is that good enough?

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