Hi and before all congratulations to all the people involved in developing this marvellous program. I am all the day installing new virtual machines and physical computers and it's so useful to me having all them updated easily.
Here goes my question: I have a huge database of downloaded updates on WSUS Offline "client" directory. Two weeks ago I moved them all into a hard disk drive, then realised that the HDD is suspicious of malfunction, so I recovered all the files as soon as I could. But when I moved them into a new secure HDD and i performed an integrity check with WinRAR I found that many files were reported as damaged. Now I don't know what to do, I mean, first of all Winrar may be reporting false positives (I have seen WinRAR not handling many correct self extracting cabinets), and there are also lots of msis and other file types that winrar can't check.
I am afraid of causing damage to my machines installing updates from my corrupted repository. I have realised that WSUS download interface says "downloading/validating...", that means that the program checks the integrity of the existing files (via CRC or any like that) before skipping downloading a file? Does it check ALL the downloaded files? Because in that case I can do a complete download then continue using my database with security, otherway I shall delete my entire database then download all again.
Looking forward for a clear answer. Lots of thanks and sorry for my bad english.
Yours