You are a really confusing person. The context here is that I implemented improvements to my backup process that includes verifying the content of my backups.

Then I explicitly restated that and added that I also have two copies locally and an off-site copy. So why did you think you needed to type 7 paragraphs explaining to me why I should do… All the things I said I am doing? Are you truly worried I spent several weekends of my life to create a redundant backup system, but I’m doing it for the wrong reasons? I have demonstrated that I understand all of this. It’s pretty weird that you (and a couple others) slide into the thread to insist I haven’t considered everything, all of you insisting that unless I explicitly state otherwise, whatever system I have should be treated as though huge consequences are likely if even a slight imperfection in the system exists. I would honestly be surprised if even most medium sized companies have taken as much care in implementing a backup system as I have lol.

Right. The reason I don’t get the post is that I thought everyone would know and see this ^

I feel like this post is taking a picture of a cube, calling it a cube, then I’m supposed to doubt that it’s a cube. Which I wouldn’t…

I meant misleading in a relative sense. In any case, this post makes no sense to me.

Are you being willfully ignorant or obstinate?

No one has explained why proving the data can be read end to end and matches the original is somehow lacking. Including you.

Probably because it isn’t lacking. For a home user who doesn’t want to lose their files, this is more than sufficient. Especially given that I have two local backups and a cloud one. None of which is exactly cheap.

Yes computers fail in many ways. What exactly are you people trying to accomplish here? Just give me anxiety? Do you have 14 TB of free storage space to lend me that I can use to do the full process of re-copying the backed up data to? …

My home files are not business critical infrastructure. I’m taking several steps further than any normie would take. Keeping two backups locally, confirming their byte content, sending a subset of the files to a cloud service.

To read your comments here it seems you think I’m extremely cavalier and reckless… Because I haven’t recopied 14 TB back to their original locations to ensure that… What, copying the files works? Reading the full contents of each file and comparing to the original is somehow lacking? I don’t have 14 TB in additional storage lying around to test that… Copying is a still a thing?

It’s not like I lose a billion dollars if I lose some photos. Which again, I’ve gone to great lengths to keep safe.

Are you sure you have all the files required?

How could I possibly be sure of that? Obviously I’ve tried my best to backup everything I would ever need. For many reasons I cannot backup every single file so I’ve made the best decisions around that I know how.

Are they restored with the right permissions and metadata automatically?

Nothing about it is automatic, by design. Doesn’t need to be. And permissions aren’t something I particularly care about since there aren’t multiple users.

I’m backing up and verifying ~ 14 TB of files and have taken great pains to ensure I’m doing everything right.

Any idea why I got downvoted? Also…why the quizzing?

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Edit: I see, it’s a hashing algorithm. I tried a few different algorithms and had some issues with large files, and didn’t really see performance increases over md5, since it seems reading the data from disk was the bottleneck. I didn’t try this one though. I wonder if it would actually be faster.

I don’t get it. The joke is “haha it’s actually not a misleading projection”… ?

I specifically stated that I verify the file content via md5 hash. And I keep original directory structure, so yes if i need to restore these I can.

Edit: no idea what there is to downvote here. It was definitely weird to have an md5 checking script that took days to develop and confirm working as expected and which takes days to run on several TBs of files, dismissed as simply “checking that the files are there”. No, it checks that the bytes present in the backed up copy match those in the original. You know, what an md5 checksum is.

These kinds of relentless posts finally got me to write a script that verifies all my backed up files using md5 checksums.

What I dislike about the overview is that it takes over the whole screen and also feels a little sluggish. I like the ulauncher loads really quickly and on top of the current UI, blocking virtually nothing from view. Also I like having a few bells and whistles that ulauncher has, like the ability to type a quick math problem and it functions like a basic calculator.

edit: I just realized that I’m mislabeling the thing I dislike. It’s the “show all applications” feature in reality. I use overview a lot just to keep track of what I have open, and I like it, but it serves a different purpose than what I want, which is just a very quick and unobtrusive way to launch an app not on the dock.

I appreciate that. It is indeed a problem that people don’t learn things for themselves, but in this case I wasn’t planning to accept any response as gospel. It was more of a poorly communicated “did I miss something?”

Thank you. This is exactly the answer I was hoping for ^

Right. My question probably should have been “is this based on something he actually said or just a weird joke that I wouldn’t get?”

I guess I have to caveat my phrasing even when it’s super obvious what was meant. Everyone knows you could’ve found a single example of a vegan doing something bizarre, yet it wouldn’t be remotely relevant unless it were at least a semi-popular trend.

Hint: “everyone” in this comment doesn’t literally mean every human in existence.

I know how to search the Internet but believe or not if someone posts something which may or may not be real, either they can respond accordingly or someone else easily can, as you just proved.

So there exists some group using a weird metaphor, and somehow that is just as representative of vegans as a video of how farming works is of farmers…?

Did he actually say this…?

If I have seen that, it wasn’t a charity I’ve heard of, to my knowledge. Are you in the US?

I agree with your last line, but I wouldn’t even be that mad about them taking credit if in the end, the money truly helped people and verifiably so. But when I see it, it’s always “would you like to donate to needy families?” Making you the bad guy for saying no and denying all transparency here.