pmarreck/bitrot_guard
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Protects from, detects AND FIXES bitrot, sector fails, or transmission errors, up to a user-configurable % (default 5), for data forks AND resource forks (if on macOS), using par2 underneath
4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2025-01-17 · latest 2025-11-25
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shameless plug of my anti-bitrot tool, which I am actually enhancing with a --daemon mode currently https://github.com/pmarreck/bitrot_guard
comment by pmarreck · 2025-11-25 · in Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data -
…in a file or set of files... without touching the original files. Only dependency is par2: https://github.com/pmarreck/bitrot_guard Both should work on macOS/Linux/WSL.
comment by pmarreck · 2025-10-16 · in The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks -
…tool to try to attack this specific problem (subtle, random drive corruption) in the general sense https://github.com/pmarreck/bitrot_guard but it requires re-running it for any modified files, which makes it mainly only suitable for…
comment by pmarreck · 2025-09-26 · in RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS -
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Bitrot_guard, a tool to protect against bitrot (sector fails, TX errors, etc.)story by pmarreck · 2025-01-17 · 1 comment