In this video I will be discussing data integrity, what Synology and BTRFS do to protect you from data corruption, and what settings you should enable to ensure you are protected.

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TOC:
00:00 Introduction
02:17 A note on backups
04:44 BTRFS
06:52 RAID
09:12 Data scrubbing
11:34 Advanced checksum
12:58 Enable notifications
13:35 Snapshots
14:03 Testing
19:20 Corruption issues I have seen with my clients' NASes
22:24 Is RAID5 dead?
23:53 Conclusion

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