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5% of damaged files?5% of damaged files?Posted Apr 1, 2010 11:31 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669)In reply to: 5% of damaged files? by johill Parent article: Git-based backup with bup
I interpret it to mean, the par stuff means you can suffer up to 5%
corruption by volume of data: so, if you had 100GB, up to 5G of that could be corrupted and you could recover it.
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5% of damaged files? Posted Apr 1, 2010 12:20 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
In practice this probably means that you can recover from the majority of disk problems - unless you get particularly unlucky you're likely to be able to recover from some damaged sectors, and whole disk failures are generally unlikely (I've *never* seen one that wasn't caused by massive physical trauma).
5% of damaged files? Posted Apr 1, 2010 18:33 UTC (Thu) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217) [Link]
Well, there is also the popular "disk controller board just stops working" failure mode.
5% of damaged files? Posted Apr 7, 2010 9:11 UTC (Wed) by buchanmilne (guest, #42315) [Link]
Let's rather re-prhase that as:
"You should be able suffer up to 5% corruption of the backup files, and
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