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Old 11-18-2019, 07:24 PM   #1
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Best utility to check external drives for permission errors, corrupt files and folders, etc


As I use external pocket drives for all my archiving I am aware that on occasion there might be corrupt folders and or permission errors.
What is the best utility to check and correct external drives?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.
I need something more than the default gnome-disk-utility.

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Old 11-18-2019, 08:20 PM   #2
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As I use external pocket drives for all my archiving I am aware that on occasion there might be corrupt folders and or permission errors.
What is the best utility to check and correct external drives?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.
I need something more than the default gnome-disk-utility.
Although it doesn't help with permission errors, I have successfully used ddrescue for data recovery.

Essentially you create an ISO image of the physical drive as soon as you suspect serious corruption or imminent hardware failure. Then operate on the ISO image to recover the data.

If this isn't what you meant, please elaborate.

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Congratulations on thinking about the health of your backups - too few do. Some observations:
- permissions on (data) backups is the least of your worries
- files cannot be verified unless you are using something that has CRC "baked in" - for filesystems that basically that means ZFS or btrfs. And you need to do regular scrubs.
- maintain multiple backups. Too many people rely on a single (maybe de-dup'd) backup; accident waiting to happen.
 
  


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