File Integrity
When copying files to archive on a server, or after they have been stored on the server for a while and may have bit rot, we need to ensure that we at least know what files are correct and those that are wrong.
In each new directory I copy across to the NAS for archive, I store a hashes.txt file which I generate with:
This can then be verified on the remote box with:
This will print file names for files that do not match.