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Enabling bit-rot
For reasons buried in the long forgotten past we have NAS units without bit-rot protection on almost every share/file. Most systems are using Raid1enabled. If I understand this circumstance prop...
The short answer to my original question is that for bit-rot protection to be enabled it must be set on the file/share and then all data after that point that is moved/used/copied will have the associated protection. Stuff that just sits there is not protected.
I set up a temp share and copied major parts of my data to the temp share. Subsequently I copied back to the same location that had bit-rot protection enabled. Took some time but certainly not impossible.
No answer for you, sorry, but stumbled across this post and quite interested to know the answer as well....
The short answer to my original question is that for bit-rot protection to be enabled it must be set on the file/share and then all data after that point that is moved/used/copied will have the associated protection. Stuff that just sits there is not protected.
I set up a temp share and copied major parts of my data to the temp share. Subsequently I copied back to the same location that had bit-rot protection enabled. Took some time but certainly not impossible.
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