I have some SATA/IDE hard drive enclosures that I use for backups. The drives for formatted with VFAT, since I need to be able to share them with Windows and OS/X machines.The backup scripts pipe the output through vdmfec to provide error correction for the files. (I started doing this when I found that some old backup files were damaged.)The example on the manpage refers to 1.44MB floppy discs.So my question is: is it worth using vdmfec for hard drives (as I've heard that newer ones have built-in error correction)? And if so, should I be using different settings than the defaults?Also: are there better tools for Linux than vdmfec for error correction?
Is it worth using vdmfec for backups to external SATA/IDE hard drives?
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