Protecting Your Data : Backing Up a Database : CRC codes and redundancy in backup recovery
CRC codes and redundancy in backup recovery
To recover corrupted backup blocks, PROREST relies on:
CRC codes to identify bad blocks. A CRC code is automatically calculated for each database backup block whether or not you specify a redundancy factor.
Error-correction blocks to recover bad blocks. Error-correction blocks are included in the backup only if you explicitly request them with the -red parameter of the backup utility.