24 Jul
2018
24 Jul
'18
3:25 a.m.
has anyone ever used Iomega Rev as backup media?
how good is that?
2018-07-23 23:11 GMT+02:00 Ali via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:
Probably a
good idea to use something like RAR with parity. I know I
have
downloaded some multi-segment binaries in RAR format from usenet with
several missing segments and as long as I had the parity file set it
could
successfully recover the entire archive.
Parity will only take you so far. It is the same as RAID - you can only tolerate so many
disk failures before the whole thing collapses like a house of cards. It works well w/
UseNet because usually the errors are small compared to the data set. However, if you were
missing say three RAR files out of six then one PAR file is not going to save you.
-Ali