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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by simonh on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:13AM (#27881739)
If one of them becomes corrupt in a non-obvious way, how do you know which it is? You need three copies to be sure.
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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by Zambyte on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:22AM (#27881816)
Or you could save a hash as well
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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by alias_neo on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:12AM (#27882263)
What if a bit flips in your hash file and changes that? Now you need to store your hash a bunch of times too!

I kid, this is what I do. I've recently been backing up my family photos/videos to various media and I've been hashing each file and storing a hash file alongside the media to compare to in the future.

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