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backups (programming.dev)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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A social media post by @brankopetric00. "A backup isn't a backup until you have successfully restored from it. Until then, it's just a very expensive file upload called 'Schrödinger's Data'."
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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

Blake3(blak3?) is where it's at

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    ?

    Edit: I see, it's a hashing algorithm. I tried a few different algorithms and had some issues with large files, and didn't really see performance increases over md5, since it seems reading the data from disk was the bottleneck. I didn't try this one though. I wonder if it would actually be faster.

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