> And it only dramatically increases the reliability until it doesn't. FAT is a dead-simple file system, and you don't have to dig very deep to find stories of files on people's FAT volumes disappearing or getting trashed following a power cut.
The backup is indeed itself most likely stored on a filesystem. PAR2 padding only goes so far.
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2026-10-19 22:00:58 UTC
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