in reply to (OT) Redundant Backup

well, saving the ECC data on the same hard disk would make the solution useless because it is not rare for a hard disk to just die loosing all the data inside.

For only 40GB of data, buy abother disk and make a mirror or oven better, copy everything in DVDs.

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Re^2: (OT) Redundant Backup
by fundflow (Chaplain) on Mar 27, 2006 at 13:41 UTC
    Thanks.
    I actually do have the data backed up more than once. Both on hard-disks and DVDs.

    This doesn't help much though, since its enough that the file gets corrupted on the main copy, to propagate the corruption to the other copies. On occasion, I stumble onto a corrupt image and look it up in the old copies. This happened too many times before, on various disks.

    I want to be absolutely sure that such cases do not occur since this data is precious for me.
    Surely there is a better way.