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Detects bit rotten files on the hard drive to save your precious photo and music collection from slow decay.

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Detects bit rotten files on the hard drive to save your precious photo and music collection from slow decay.

Usage

Go to the desired directory and simply invoke:

$ bitrot

This will start digging through your directory structure recursively indexing all files found. The index is stored in a .bitrot.db file which is a SQLite 3 database.

Next time you run bitrot it will add new files and update the index for files with a changed modification date. Most importantly however, it will report all errors, e.g. files that changed on the hard drive but still have the same modification date.

Performance

Obviously depends on how fast the underlying drive is. No rigorous performance tests have been done. For informational purposes, on my typical 5400 RPM laptop hard drive scanning a 60+ GB music library takes around 20 minutes. On an OCZ Vertex 3 SSD drive bitrot is able to scan a 100 GB Aperture library in under 10 minutes. Both tests on HFS+.

Change Log

0.1.0

  • First published version.

Authors

Glued together by Łukasz Langa.

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