Re: Archive integrity/corruption question.

David Croll via Any discussion of rdiff-backup <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Feb 2026 20:45:47 +0100

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Hello Leland,


I would also like to confirm what you've written. Also, in case of an=20
SHA sum mismatch, rdiff-backup recreates an empty file - either from the=
=20
mirror, or an increment. And you can't apply an increment to it. And the=
=20
gzipped increment files won't unpack either if there's a CRC-32 mismatch.

So, some redundancy is in order...

Don't laugh, but as a private user I've simply taped three external HDDs=
=20
together, and I randomly rdiff-backup to one of these.


David