Cold-Storage on Single ZFS Disk

ZFS will throw an error upon reading data where it cannot repair it from checksums.

Discussion on “copies” here: The ZFS "copies" features is useless: Change my mind

I definitely wouldn’t rely on it on a single drive. Perhaps consider purchasing another for use in a mirror in an external 2-disk enclosure?

Then you’re also into the realm of long-term archival in general. If it was me I’d be thinking cl**d services such as AWS Glacier.

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