Storage Integrity Solutions

Karl <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jul 2021 06:50:02 -0400
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Does anyone know of good solutions to this issue?

> I'm struggling to find a way to preserve data
> across corrupt systems damaging it and
> harddrives that break frequently.  This is very
> hard for me to solve.

I'm basically running off a raspberry pi right now.  I don't have a lot of
finances.  I do have a number of external drives, but they tend to break
faster than I can recover my files from them, resulting in a big queue of
"to image/analyse" .

I've been using git-annex, but I'm running into the issue that `git annex
repair` seems to wipe my git history when I run into object corruption.

What kinds of solutions exist already for large hash-addressed data
integrity with history, that will work when the storage media are failing
quickly?

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<div dir=3D"auto">Does anyone know of good solutions to this issue?<div dir=
=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">&gt; I&#39;m struggling to find a way=
 to preserve data</div><div dir=3D"auto">&gt; across corrupt systems damagi=
ng it and</div><div dir=3D"auto">&gt; harddrives that break frequently.=C2=
=A0 This is very</div><div dir=3D"auto">&gt; hard for me to solve.<br></div=
><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I&#39;m basically running of=
f a raspberry pi right now.=C2=A0 I don&#39;t have a lot of finances.=C2=A0=
 I do have a number of external drives, but they tend to break faster than =
I can recover my files from them, resulting in a big queue of &quot;to imag=
e/analyse&quot; .</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I&#39;=
ve been using git-annex, but I&#39;m running into the issue that `git annex=
 repair` seems to wipe my git history when I run into object corruption.</d=
iv><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">What kinds of solutions ex=
ist already for large hash-addressed data integrity with history, that will=
 work when the storage media are failing quickly?</div></div>

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