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> what's a good way to make sure your rolling backups aren't simply backing up malware-encrypted files? Compute checksums. Also, if storing diffs check out how
by 908B64B197 4y ago
> what's a good way to make sure your rolling backups aren't simply backing up malware-encrypted files?
Compute checksums. Also, if storing diffs check out how many files the back-up think changed. All of your photo library getting re-uploaded should be a red flag.
- Helmut10001 4y agoI do this using an `rsync --dry-run` with `--stats` enabled, you can get the number of changed/deleted files from the stats and then decide whether you want to proceed without `--dry-run`. This is for off-site backups. For on-site, I prefer ZFS Snapshots.