Degradation Operations Get Degraded Buckets Get Degraded Data Persistence Rules This chapter provides detailed information about buckets and persistence rules that contain degraded data. Data is considered degraded if one or more copies of the data is lost (for example, if an ejected tape that contains a copy is marked as permanently lost) or corrupted (if the checksum read does not match the expected value). Degraded data can still be read provided that at least one copy of the data is good.