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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/killingallmytime on 2025-05-27 20:48:02.

I use iMazing on PC in order to backup all of my iOS devices for the sake of picture/video preservation. Unfortunately, I just found out from the devs that their software relies on hardlinks for its backup/archiving and backups can become corrupted if hardlinks aren't preserved when moving backup files. Is there a software that can compare two copies of files/folders and make sure that hardlinks are identical between them? I have Beyond Compare 5, but I'm not seeing anything I can do on that level.

Up to this point I had been backing up to my desktop and copy/pasting the backups to my NAS. I would double check the copy process with Beyond Compare, but apparently that wouldn't catch this? I'm worried I screwed up some of these backups and there's no going back (devices are gone).

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