The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Luann1497 on 2025-08-01 09:16:22+00:00.
I started using one of AppBox's lower-tier plans (the 2TB one - https://www.appbox.co/) so as to offload old video projects and personal archives that I don't access very often. Basically cold storage.
But how "safe" would you say this is long-term? If you use a seedbox as your "deep freeze" archive tier for data you rarely touch, how's it going?
I do keep local copies, but I also like to have an off-site backup that's already online. And it's good for seeding or syncing via rclone or Nextcloud.
But I'm also thinking data integrity can kinda be at risk over time, no? Like, how do you know that years from now there's no "bit rot" that's slowly killing files? Are there any tools I can use that can periodically rehash or verify file integrity? I know you can manually run something like md5sum but still want to know more about this.