bit-rot

Drive Baby Sitter is a maintenance and monitoring tool designed to help you keep external drives healthy over long periods of time. It performs two major categories of checks: * FILE INTEGRITY (Bit-Rot Detection) * SURFACE ANALYSIS (Performance & Stability Scans)

Detect silent data corruption (bit rot) with BLAKE2b checksums — cross-platform, zero dependencies, with built-in scheduling and email alerts.

Verified folder & drive mirroring for macOS from the terminal. Copies only what changed, preserves Finder tags/xattrs/permissions, re-reads every copy with SHA-256 before saying SYNCED. A zero-dependency Swift alternative to rsync -a on the Mac.

Detects bit-rot in archived media by creating and validating file hashes

3-tier macOS backup: rsync mirror + restic cold backup + SHA256 audit. launchd automation, zero cloud.

Command-line tool that detects silent data corruption (bit rot) by storing and verifying SHA-512 file checksums in SQLite.