Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup

• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So the drive doesn’t need to be hot, I can just plug in once a year and it auto-repairs?

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, the “live” filesystems will repair themselves when they detect problems. They keep revisions of your data, and run checksums constantly. When they find a file has inadvertently changed without access, it will restore said files. Think of it like Mac “Time Machine”, but it’s just the filesystem . You can restore stuff from points in time when needed.

    Just read up on it.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah I will read up on it, thanks for the tip!

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