bossanova808;237242 Wrote: > 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).
You're thinking about this all wrong. You know the disc is going to fail. Replace it. Don't try to work out what data has become corrupt once it's already had problems, just replace the thing now - you know it's faulty and that can only get worse. If you're concerned about data corruption from failing discs, find some software to monitor the SMART data which most modern discs provide and gives you warnings before you even see data corruption. The drive can detect that (for example) the disc is reading a low quality signal, or that the seek times are going out of range, or whatever measures are being used. -- gerph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39578 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
