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Re:"It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail." by Zhenya on Monday January 20, 2014 @10:24PM (#7093243)
"No it doesn't" what?

That it's ok to trust https to keep a huge download completely error free?

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Re:"It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail." by mburns on Monday January 20, 2014 @10:35PM (#7093279)
Or over wireless. Absolutely.

If there was data corruption in the HTTPS stream, it wouldn't decrypt correctly or the packet wouldn't checksum correctly and it would be retransmitted.

TCP works just fine over wired vs wireless.

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Re:"It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail." by Dylan16807 on Monday January 20, 2014 @10:33PM (#7093267)
It does not go without saying that you should use wired connections instead of wireless. Wifi has a perfectly good error detection mechanism that gets layered on top of the TCP mechanism.
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