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What version of gzip you are running ?. Is the destination filesystem same as the current one where the source file is residing ?. If not, does the destination file system has large file support.
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Absolutely, md5sum or shasum is the right way to check the file integrity.

So, that only means the file is not copied correctly. Isn't it your intention anyway. Findout if the file copied is the same or corrupt ?. Does it not solve your issue?.

Why can't you use md5sum ?.

Most likely culprits are HDD or connectors IMHO. If its some critical server I would try replacing both.

Bid fare well to hard disk and get a new one.

Yes, thanks.

To start with

dmesg | grep -I error

Please post the dmesg output. Do you see any IO errors there ?.

Check time stamp of his home dir. That should show you the date and time created.