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After you have backed up your files, you should have a look to see if the backup was successful.

A file integrity check is not done on a copy/move operation. This means if you are copying files to other drives/media, it is not easy to verify data integrity or to single out files that have failed.

You can do a check by looking through the copied files and directories in the destination media. By opening and checking the copied files, you can see whether the files you check copied successfully.

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Explain why backups should be tested.

Give methods for checking backups, like MD5sum.