Re: Any protection against 'bit rot' ?

[Johan Brinch <zerrez@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 17:38, Joachim Schipper
<joachim@joachimschipper.nl> wrote:
> I'm not sure Amazon doesn't already do some form of error correction,
> though.

From http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#protecting :
"""
Once stored, Amazon S3 maintains the durability of your objects by
quickly detecting and repairing any lost redundancy. Amazon S3 also
regularly verifies the integrity of data stored using checksums. If
corruption is detected, it is repaired using redundant data. In
addition, Amazon S3 calculates checksums on all network traffic to
detect corruption of data packets when storing or retrieving dataFAQ:
"""

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Johan Brinch