Archiving Data Permanently
Brian Gaynor
briang at pmccorp.com
Wed Aug 17 16:09:11 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:20 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> If you configure RAR properly it will create a set of files that can be
> used to rebuild the archive. You can set the amount of rebuild files so
> if you have a set of files that are corrupted, you can do a repair.
>
> It can split large files into more manageable parts or smaller sizes if
> there is a corrupted DVD where you lose part of the DVD, you can still
> recover all of the data.
>
> You could make a tar.gz image of your data and then rar the data into
> smaller files to be saved. Many options abound.
>
> RAR is not free but shareware http://www.rarlab.com/
There is also an RPM available from http://freshrpms.net that plays nice
with file roller. Not sure what the license issues (if any) are though.
--
Brian Gaynor
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