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@ -25,3 +25,12 @@ problem:
* What is the hardware interface of the drive? Will hardware still exist * What is the hardware interface of the drive? Will hardware still exist
to talk to it? to talk to it?
* What if some of the data is damaged? git-annex facilitates storing a
configurable number of [[copies]] of the file contents. The metadata
about your files is stored in git, and so every clone of the repository
means another copy of that is stored. Also, git-annex uses filenames
for the data that encode everything needed to match it back to the
metadata. So if a filesystem is badly corrupted and all your annexed
files end up in `lost+found`, they can easily be lifted back out into
another clone of the repository.