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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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  1. 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
  2. …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.
  3. …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…