Since MS refuses to let me use ReFS with integrity streams without building a Mirrored Storage Space, i am stuck with file hashing to prevent bitrot in my backups. Currently i just use the Compare ...

It is always important to verify whether the large file you downloaded is the file you expected to download or not. This is because files may change in some way from the original while downloading.

Duplicate files are some of the most sneaky and troublesome storage hogs on a drive. They're easy to accumulate, and difficult to remove if you don't know where the originals are or how many copies ...

Decades ago, I would have used fc to check a single file copy. Now I have 3TB on a linux server made up primarily of 10GB DV video files plus thousands of JPG's in nested folders. My backup will be ...