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Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian



On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be
> > a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case,
> > is backups, IMHO. That said:
> 
> Long term integrity of the data, i.e., avoiding bit rot/silent data
> corruption. Regular backups offer no such protection.

Store error-correction data along the backups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/rsbep.html
http://dvdisaster.net/en/index.html

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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