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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Is it possible for a hard drive to show as having backed up everything without having backed up everything? (alien.top)

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I was pretty jet lagged and not sure if X folder transferred completely to New Hard Drive. If I remember correctly, I cancelled the transfer at some point. However, now in review, New Hard Drive is reporting that the physical size of the folder is equally large as Old Hard Drive. Is it possible that New Hard Drive does NOT have everything properly backed up, but is just reporting it, or did it probably go through?

Edit: same number of folders and same number of files are reported. So the question is, are all files intact and I'm remembering something wrong, or should I delete in New Hard Drive and re-transfer?

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 2 points 1 year ago

You can checksum them, might be faster than delete and retransfer. Some tools can do that for you at scale; I forget if rsync that that ability or not. Not sure what os or tools you have available, though, so ymmv.