alt Hacker NewsHow do you know how often those files need to be backed up without reading them? Timestamps and sizes are not reliable, only content hashes. How do you get a content hash? You read the file.
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Dylan16807 • yesterday at 1:41 PM
Backblaze already trusts the modification date.
If timestamps aren’t reliable, you fall way outside the user that can trust a third party backup provider. Name a time when modification timestamp fails but a cloud provider will catch the need to download the file.