scorch VS restic

The method I use is to run scorch every night to compute hashes for new files and check around 12% of old files for hash errors every night. Even if your backup is the same day as a ransomware attack, you will still catch it if the attack hits enough files for one to get randomly scrubbed. Also scorch is designed around making the hash database small and independent from the rest of the system, so you can automate copying it to a bunch of different places.

Lastly, you could just point scorch (https://github.com/trapexit/scorch) at your drives and run it on a cron or systemd timer - just have the script alert you with an e-mail or whatever your preferred method is. Not ideal but probably less work than rebuilding two arrays because you don't like the format of error messages.

If you really care, you can use something like scorch or file-digests to get the hashes of your files and just store that in a text file, recalculating monthly. No need to get fancy with it. Hell, write your own simple script that hashes, outputs to file, and checks previous versions.

Not exactly what you're looking for but close -> https://github.com/trapexit/scorch

Scorch should fit the bill (https://github.com/trapexit/scorch)

Restic - GitHub

I religiously use Google contacts. It's the simplest way to keep people contacts up to date on Android.

I archive all important documents in specific folders by subject and date. This is backed up to back blaze with restic. https://restic.net/

I use https://ente.io for pictures. I convinced my wife to use it, and she agreed to auto share her photos so I don't nag her for copies. It had simple import from Facebook and Google.

I also keep extensive journals, which really helps to tie it all together. I can basically grep for hangouts, conversations, etc.

I also separate work journal from personal, and have essentially a journal for each project. https://jodavaho.io/tags/bullet-journal.html for how.

I religiously use Google calendar for all plans, you can easily search it for past events to get dates.

I also use monicahq for some notes about things I should remember about people but the habit never stuck.

After Borg, I switched to Restic:

https://restic.net/

AFAIK, the only difference is that Restic doesn't require Restic installed on the remote server, so you can efficiently backup to things like S3 or FTP. Other than that, both are fantastic.

I'm curious, too. I know they've had some issues in the past:

https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3268#issuecomment-78...

On the other hand, I tested around 15,000 backups last year (multiple hourly backups, daily tests) and they all passed.

I use and recommend restic. I use it for about 60 machines on my LAN, and it's absolutely fantastic.