Re: [NTLK] Daily Backups to Flash Cards

From: John Hay (OceanCity_at_mac.com)
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 21:40:19 PDT


I need to know the significance and/or the ramifications of the "self-
correcting" data integrity check. What exactly is happening during the
"self-correction" during the backup? This almost sounds too good to be
true, as this could provide a reliable way to rebuild, reindex, or
whatever schemes are enacted the Newton data soups, is this a viable
known feature I don't seem to see mentioned anywhere? Need to know ;-)
TIA, John

10/26/05 John Hay issued the following and I have taken literary
license to pass it along on a "Need to Know Basis" . . . ?
>One thing that suggested to me that I had NO IDEA even existed, by Woo,
>is that there is some kind of a "self-correcting" data integrity check
>going on behind the scenes when you do _cabled_ backups to a
>_workstation_, therefore, in addition to my flash cards I will
>DEFINITELY want to start running some occasional cabled backups to my G4
>or G5 as well!

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