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Had a storage machine in cold storage and unpowered for almost an entire year. Advice on insuring data integrity on startup? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] [S, B] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah that's kinda basic data preservation practice.

The ssds are just windows and installed programs. No point to making a backup, but I do have a system image backed up to hdd anyway.

I more just want to make sure they're in the best shape possible after booting up, and wondered if anyone had any guidance on that.

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    Had a storage machine in cold storage and unpowered for almost an entire year. Advice on insuring data integrity on startup? (alien.top)
     

    Had a storage machine carrying some important data that's been in cold storage for a year. Not too worried about the hdds, but thinking the SSDs could use a good once over to make sure none of the files have decayed. Not really sure how to do that though, was thinking of maybe running a virus scanner over the whole thing as that should force the system to look at every file, and maybe the ssd/hdd error correction will make sure everything is up to snuff. Any advice? Is there a better way?

    System is running windows so some Linux tools are trickier to fire up without creating some kind of live disc or something.