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Even if all files are changed when you open a OE DB, not every byte in every file is modified. Probably only a few actualy change. I'm no dedup expert, but I know they check "blocks" for changes, whatever a block mean. Let's say the compare 4KB at a time, so they can extract the changes. As with any backup solution, the only way to know it is actually working is to go ahead and restore the backup. Restore, check the database and if everything comes out clean, then you know the bytes of the backup file were correct at the time the restore operation read them. After the backup read those bytes they might have been corrupted by whatever corrups backups 
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