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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by mpol on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:20AM (#27627117)
For all my important photos I use par files. Using command-line tools like par2create and par2repair is simply part of the routine of storing photos from the camera on the NAS.

I also use it for music files, in the past too many mp3s got broken.

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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by bartvk on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:32AM (#27627757)
Yup, I also do this. Photos get moved into monthly folders, and every now and then, I run "par2create par2file *".

Before I did this, in the past, I restored from backup and found I had damaged jpeg files. With par2, there's at least a recourse.

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