Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup a chunk
> is deduped and referenced by 300 files. If the deduped chunk is broken
> I think you will lost it on 300 referenced files/chunks. This is not good
> for me.

I don't know what other backup software does, but at least `bup`
addresses this risk by recommending&supporting the use of `par2` (and
of course Git's content-addresses storage makes it easy to detect
corruption).


        Stefan