Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months agoSo the drive doesn’t need to be hot, I can just plug in once a year and it auto-repairs?
Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months agoSo the drive doesn’t need to be hot, I can just plug in once a year and it auto-repairs?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Yeah I will read up on it, thanks for the tip!