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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid it still strikes me as being rather a recipe for disaster. Consider the situation: you run an incremental backup at the end of each day. Your disk begins to fail, and slowly your documents begin to be corrupted, perhaps over a period of months. Each day, those newly-damaged files will overwrite the "good" versions on your backup device. You finally realise there's a problem and discover only then that your backup device contains corrupted files rather than the good versions it used to.
Not an option I'd use personally.
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True but it's also possible that bit rot/corruption is occurring in the backup drive rather than the source.
It's not an option I'd use on automatic/batch mode but it's useful for integrity check when running FFS manually.