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> I use btrfs for my backups... Say what?!? I got burned too. I made a snapshot and "btrfs send" it by pipe to an xz archive. When I tried to restore, I got a

by M95D 11mo ago

> I use btrfs for my backups... Say what?!? I got burned too. I made a snapshot and "btrfs send" it by pipe to an xz archive. When I tried to restore, I got a CRC error (from "btrfs receive", not xz). Everything lost. There's no way to restore it now.

nolist_policy 11mo ago
There could very well be bitrot in your xz archive without xz detecting it: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html#checking https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html#checking