Translations:Maintenance: Preservation, Development and Migrations/22/en

This means that in the first instance, we can try to repair the file using dedicated software tools for the given file format. If repair is not an option, we should restore the file from one of our backups. In case we do not have a backup or it is not usable, we can decide to preserve the changed original file. Regardless of what we decide, in the end, we need to document our action and detail the decision that was made and why, which is to be preserved as part of the metadata along with the file.