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authorJim Campbell <jwcampbell@gmail.com>2011-06-08 13:19:49 -0400
committerJim Campbell <jwcampbell@gmail.com>2011-06-08 13:20:32 -0400
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<link type="guide" xref="files#backup"/>
<desc>Verify your backup was successful.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2010-04-04" status="final"/>
- <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-04-06" status="outdated"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-06-08" status="candidate"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
@@ -15,26 +15,23 @@
</info>
<title>Check your backup</title>
- <p>
- After you have backed up your files, you should make sure that the backup was successful.
- </p>
- <p>
- A file integrity check is not done on a copy/move operation. This means if you are copying files to other drives/media,
-it is not easy to verify data integrity or to single out files that have failed.
- </p>
- <p>
- You can do a check by looking through the copied files and directories in the destination media. By opening
-and checking the copied files, you can see whether the files you check copied successfully.
- </p>
+
+ <p>After you have backed up your files, you should make sure that the
+backup was successful.</p>
+
+ <p>When you use the file manager to copy or move files, the
+computer checks to make sure that all of the data transferred correctly.
+However, if you are transferring data that is very important to you,
+you may want to perform additional checks to confirm that your
+data has been transferred properly.</p>
+
+ <p>You can do an extra check by looking through the copied files
+and directories in the destination media. By checking for the files and folders
+that you transferred, you can have extra confidence that the process was
+successful.</p>
- <note style="tip"><p>If you find that you do regular backups of large amounts of data, you may find it easier to
+ <note style="tip"><p>If you find that you do regular backups of large amounts of data, you may find it easier to
use a dedicated backup program, such as <app>Déjà Dup</app>. Such a program is more powerful and more reliable than
just copying and pasting data.</p></note>
-
- <comment>
- <cite date="2010-06-29" href="mailto:gnome-doc-list@gnome.org">GNOME Documentation Project</cite>
- <p>Explain why backups should be tested.</p>
- <p>Give methods for checking backups, like MD5sum.</p>
- </comment>
</page>