Is there a tool where I can compare multiple copies of the same file in different directories / hard drives to check if files got corrupted?
Is there a tool where I can compare multiple copies of the same file in different directories / hard drives to check if files got corrupted?
sha1sum to generate a list of checksums of the files in one directory, then use it to check the other durectories and it’ll tell you if any files don’t match.
Going to guess this is a Windows question and you are thinking GUI. In that case I’d suggest the older https://checksumcompare.sanktuaire.com/downloads-en as it’ll do what you ask for visually.
There are a plethora of ways to do this in Linux on the CLI, TUI, and GUI, which is what most answers will likely lean towards given this community. If your apt toward that then start with https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/330933/diffing-two-directories-recursively-based-on-checksums
You could do a dry run with rsync and see what it reports needs update.
I think you’d have to force it to use checksums instead of time stamps.