Photo backup integrity

April 26th, 2008 by MjP

In certains situations your photo backup storage might get corrupted (e.g. DVDR disks will not last forever) so you need a tool to detect possible errors on your photo backups. I use small free program called FileCheckMD5 ( http://www.brandonstaggs.com/filecheckmd5/ ) to determine offline backup integrity. After the files are backed up I will run the program to generate md5 hashes from each file. After a period of time I can recheck if the files are corrupted on the backup disk by running the program again. This way I can determine possible errors on disks and correct the situation if needed.

For actual backup process I will use 2BirghtSpark SyncBackSE (http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html) backup program in the future (I have 30days trial version on the testing). The software is similar to Nero BackItUp  but have much more options and works better than old version of BackItUp program which I have been using. The backed up files goes to external hard disk and the copy of that hard disk is located on off site location.

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