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Re:Ice cold archive storage by icebraining on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:39PM (#19640798)
A cheap storage VPS won't give you 11 9s of durability, though. Chances are a single drive failure will cause data loss.
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Re:Ice cold archive storage by lucb1e on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:32AM (#19642495)
It's your backup, not your primary system. The odds that more than one drive fails within the same, say, week, is probably perfectly acceptable for most people.
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Re:Ice cold archive storage by z3t4 on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:46AM (#19642293)
You can hash the data at regular intervals to make sure it's intact. For example adding this command to crontab:

    /usr/bin/md5sum --quiet -c md5sum.chk
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