Questions tagged [data-integrity]
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Verifying storage device against silent data corruption
I have a new Samsung 970 Evo which is very likely to spoil the data. There was massive file damage AND NTFS structure damage twice, a week after each time after I installed a new OS onto it. Digital ...
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Combining similar data from three different sources into one row for each client,
To start off, I don't really use Excel, but I was given this task.
We are integrating two stores (CRUNCH and FRESH) into our MAIN system, each with their own client formatting. Many clients are shared ...
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Are spare sectors stored in a hard drive's Host Protected Area (HPA)?
I need to wipe some used hard drives before using them in case they contain malware. Is it safe to remove the host protected area?
Is the HPA used to store spare sectors? It is only 1 MB but might ...
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Verify data integrity of tar outputting through ssh
I am creating a backup script which uses tar, encrypts it with gpg and then sends the output through ssh to an offsite host. I am now wondering weather and how I can verify that all of the data is ...
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How reliable is diff?
I copied a large directory from one volume to another (using rsync) and subsequently wanted to check whether the copy was indeed correct to verify the integrity of the data. To avoid the lengthy file ...
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Does a repeated download protect against file corruption?
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I use a program called youtube-dl to download and archive videos from websites like YouTube and Twitch. To verify the integrity of the downloads, I download the same video twice ...
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Is downloading a media file twice and comparing their hash values enough to verify their integrity?
I often use youtube-dl to download videos. As far as I know, there is no data integrity verfication built in to youtube-dl, so what I do to verify that a video isn't corrupted in some way after ...
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What's RedHat integrity test?
The binary DVD *.isos for installing the Red Hat OS, which I downloaded from https://access.redhat.com/downloads/, I checked, has the same SHA-256 reported in the webpage. But when I boot the ...
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When a HDD has bad sectors, are files that don't show up any errors at reading in good state?
Well, I am dealing with an HDD with some unreallocated bad sectors for the 2nd time (the first time was a dying HDD, but now this other HDD is just one with "caution" state according to ...
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ffmpeg is complaining about ACT flag violation in some of our DNxHD videos. Could this be safely ignored? Why?
We've been using ffmpeg/ffprobe for checking video file integrity. If ffmpeg returns anything in its stderr, we'd know something's not right.
For some videos, an error like this will show up in the ...
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How to cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of Microsoft Windows .iso releases (with gpg?)
For a given Windows release published by Microsoft, how can I cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of the .iso file that I downloaded before I copy it onto a USB drive and attempt ...
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How to checksum files from filename on Linux
I have many files tagged with a CRC checksum on their filename on a Windows machine. Example:
filename_[000000].extension
I know there are a lot of options for Linux based systems to check/calculate ...
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How to cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of Mozilla releases (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc)
For a given software release published by Mozilla, how can I cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of the file that I downloaded before I execute it to install that program?
Today I ...
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How does dropbox handle silent data corruption?
How does dropbox handle silent data corruption?
If I have 10 computers synced through dropbox and one day on one of them just some files corrupt unnoticed, will dropbox just sync that 'change' to the ...
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7-Zip. t (Test integrity of archive) command. Syntax. Two variants. Difference
I use 7-Zip. I work in Windows 10 Home 64-bit. I use command line. From 7-Zip help I know there is t (Test integrity of archive) command.
Do I understand right way the following?
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7z t ...
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