The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/IllPlankton27 on 2025-02-14 18:30:45.

Hi,

1)As part of my backup strategy, I’m using Total Commander to sync my local drive (D:\) with an external drive (E:\Backup\H), where I keep both current and deleted files. I know that Total Commander doesn’t verify integrity during copying, and I want to ensure that every file in H has been copied correctly.

Since H contains both my current files and older, deleted ones, I can’t just compare it to D:\ using simple checksums. Would this rclone command help?

rclone check "D:\" "E:\Backup\H" --ignore-extra --checksum

  1. My understanding is that this will only verify files that still exist in D:\, but it won’t tell me if older files in H have gone corrupt. Is there a way to verify everything, including old files?

Any advice on a better approach? Thanks!