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Digital999
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Jan 07, 2020
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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...
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    Digital999
    Jun 07, 2020

    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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