I have a pretty substantial ripped & downloaded library of music - about 850 CDs, now in FLAC and MP3 form. There's a lot of time and ultimately $$ invested in this library.
I obviously have this backed up, weekly to a NAS here and every few months to an off site backup, which is fine. I could suffer with the loss of a few months - but not the last twenty plus years of my musical life. However, my main library disk had a scare and now has a few bad blocks. The drive appears to be working perfectly although has a few bad blocks marked by 'chkdsk' now. This got me to thinking about the integrity of the library and how to check it - basically, I am looking for the best way to automate a check, say once a week late at night, of the whole library to a byte by byte level, to make sure nothing has been corrupted. If it has been corrupted, I'd need to know and do something about it (restore from backup etc). The library is on a Win XP Pro box on an NTFS drive. I'm looking for some sort of decent tool to help with this - a file system wide checksum type tool, I guess. Obviously a Linux box and journaling file system or whatever would be a good solution , but that's not what I've got and there's business reasons behind that I can't change. So - a Windows solution for regularly checking a large (300GB) music library is ok and nothing dodgy has happened to it. Any ideas/pointers? Advice very much appreciated! -- bossanova808 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bossanova808's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39578 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
